[OSList] OST as a way to go in addressing climate change and other perils

[R Chaffe]

Alan,
It is time for us to think why has the system rejected action on dealing with human influences on climate?

I suggest that we might think of the opportunities ie money making things for the greedy,  that the current and projected climate in our area of operation?

Somehow the wider community needs to face the current reality.  So far there have been a suite of threats thrown at the community with very few opportunities apparently.

The ABC (National Public Broadcasting organisation in Australia) reported that based on the current investment over 60% of reticulated power will come from wind farms.  Some people have read the tea leaves and invested heavily in wind power as the area in Victoria covered by very high voltage distribution power lines just happen to pass through an area where increased wind is predicted in some of the new climate models.  Good news and who knows and who cares?

I am sure there must be similar stories around the world, might we use this list the make March a celebration of things being done to make the best sustainable use of the current climate and reduce green house waste?  

We then could use our shared experience to validate positive action to work with nature and reduce our pollution and unsustainable practices!

What do you think?

Regards
Rob

> On 19 Feb 2019, at 10:36 am, Alan Stewart via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
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>  G’day Fellow Spaceniks and other Kindred Spirits
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> The items below may be of interest to you.
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> They are about the looming perils of climate change and associated ways to consider and act on them, recently come to my attention.
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> I have followed such matters keenly since I attended a presentation by James Hansen while living in Hong Kong a decade ago. 
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> My question: Could bringing Open Space Technology (OST) approaches be a vital means to address constructively the issues we face as global humanity in the now Anthropocene with its perils and opportunities?
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> See:
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> Opinion | Time to Panic - The New York Times
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> Using Open Space to address climate change matters
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> https://jembendell.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/deep-adaptation-retreat-uk-2019/
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> We need to have a paradigm shift in how we view society and life.
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> https://americanminion.blog/2018/12/16/we-need-a-paradigm-shift/  
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> Also:     Fourth National Climate Change Assessment
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> (To add:  Here is a report, entitled Vision, Values and Vibes which illustrates my credentials as a Spacenik!) 
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> Tall orders indeed! Yet are there any means at hand other than OST with its underpinning premises and highly practical approaches to addressing complex issues - now needed urgently to create a viable living for succeeding generations of we humans and other inhabitants of our tiny, fragile planet home?
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> With young people, particularly school children, crying out for necessary action: 
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> https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/07/this-is-the-climate-generation-thousands-of-students-join-netherlands-protest
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> Next such events are happening all around Australia on March 15, 2019. 
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> To conclude:
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> While I feel a need and associated responsibility – given the particular experiencing I have had over nigh on eight decades of being an earthly denizen (including participating in seven 'World Open Space on Open Space' gatherings, beginning in 1998) - to bring these perspectives to your notice …
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> It is, in my mind, for you younger Spaceniks to make what you will of them. Given that what I have drawn attention to here is likely only another way of expressing what you are already aware of.  
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> Bearing in mind that,  as with great works of art, "Which cannot be taken in at a glance" Linguist I.A. Richards, so it will be in your grand adventuring ahead.  
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> Looking forward, indeed.👍
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> Al  
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> Al (formerly Alan) Stewart, PhD
> Process Artist 
> Facilitator of conversations that matter and participatory fun
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> Senior Fulbright Scholar
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> Blog:  www.conversare.net
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> Member:  American Society for Cybernetics
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> Member: National Trouble Makers Union
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> Residence: Adelaide, South Australia, since 1975 
> With time away in the USA (1981) and Hong Kong (2005-2011)  
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> "Whenever we treat each other well good things happen."
> Al Stewart
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> PS. If you feel in need of inspiration, you may wish to look out for  - perhaps through your local library - a book of photographs entitled 'The Family of Man'. "The greatest photographic exhibition of all time ..." 
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> This was published in the early 1950s. And was subsequently exhibited in many countries. I saw one of these, at age 14, in what is now Harare in Zimbabwe. It had a profound influence on me. 
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> You may also find this little story to be uplifting. ☺
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