<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Wonderful questions. There are some wonderful people who have done interesting research in and around this issue of paradigm change. Their voices are not invited onto the national network chat shows. They are not interviewed on TV or radio. Newspaper editors do not include them. Is it possible to convene marginalized voices in OST to generate some real new knowledge? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Has any paradigm ever changed from the center? Is it not the edgewalkers and outsiders who bring change to systems? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Here are some marginalized views to consider. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Jared Diamond posits a useful theory about why elite decision makers and their "vassals" fail to respond to the signals about ecological degradation caused by the dominant economic practices. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESYMFtLIis">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESYMFtLIis</a></div><ul><li>He seems to say the pressure to keep up on obligations to elites keeps everybody running in place and not responding to what becomes obvious. </li><li>He asks the question how is it that the last tree was cut down on the
Easter Islands? </li><li>It turns out other civilizations degraded their ecology
and collapsed, mostly due to overusing water for intensive agriculture
to support vast civilizations supporting urban division of labor. </li><li>The North
African breadbasket for Rome may have been one such place. Mesopotamia,
once a fertile crescent is now a dry land, salt water invited in by the
removal of the ground water. There is a pattern here. </li></ul><div><div><div>Another wonderful voice who links debts to the race to the bottom
"lower limit morality" because economic actors need to "avoid
bankruptcy" in the current system as it is is Karl Homann. The economic actors may wish to do something different ethically, but they are compelled to play along or face destitution. <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.wcge.org/download/DP_2006-5_Homann_-_The_Sense_and_Limits_of_the_Economic_Method_in_Business_Ethics_o.pdf">http://www.wcge.org/download/DP_2006-5_Homann_-_The_Sense_and_Limits_of_the_Economic_Method_in_Business_Ethics_o.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.wcge.org/images/wissenschaft/publikationen/DP_2006-4_Homann_-_Competition_and_Morality_o.pdf">https://www.wcge.org/images/wissenschaft/publikationen/DP_2006-4_Homann_-_Competition_and_Morality_o.pdf</a></div><div><br></div></div></div><div>In our modern world, we might look carefully at the financial balance
sheets that force firms, families, individuals (and most of us) to
continue on in our daily economic activities in the fossil fuel age without stopping. And, even resisting losing our place in the hierarchy. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The major stake shareholders of fossil fuel corporations are also cross-shareholders of banks. They aren't in a position to pull credit from their fossil fuel assets only to bankrupt themselves. <br></div><br>There's been 40 years for them to do so. We see only small projects, and mostly in countries where fossil fuel owners are not politically powerful. Denmark, Germany show it can be done. But those are not economies dominated by corporate stocks like BP, Exxon, Chevron, Halliburton, etc. and the banks who have $Bs in credit lines extended to them for decades. And, cross-shareholdings at the apex of control. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Instead of diving into the opportunity for a new industry with potential for ever rising EROEI, what we have seen is tremendous efforts to stop the tide, create confusion in the public about climate change, and continue with ever harder drilling and coal removal despite obviously diminishing energy returns on energy investment and moribund economies in the West stuck on fossil fuel infrastructure. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Tim Jackson wrote recently about diminishing EROEI as the explanation for our stagnating economies in US, EU, etc. <a href="https://www.cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/wp12/#1475182667098-0328ae0f-4bcb3691-b07686d5-d83f5228-4386">https://www.cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/wp12/#1475182667098-0328ae0f-4bcb3691-b07686d5-d83f5228-4386</a><br></div><div><br><div>These views are not part of the voices in the dominant discourse. They are counter-narrative voices, marginalized by the academy, journals, and media. <br></div><div><br></div><div>There is also a lot of brain science about denial of in VUCA situations. Rebecca Costa wrote about this in The Watchman's Rattle. We the collective operate from a place of denial and dissociation, evidently. Elites (and their "vassals") operate from a place of repaying their debts so not to bankrupt themselves. Everyone knows it needs to change. Nobody can see the solution because it means stepping out of the looking glass, breaking through the coloring book lines, changing systems for which we have no vocabulary words, and raising taboos. <br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 7:52 PM R Chaffe via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Alan,<div>It is time for us to think why has the system rejected action on dealing with human influences on climate?</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>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? </div><div><br></div><div>We then could use our shared experience to validate positive action to work with nature and reduce our pollution and unsustainable practices!</div><div><br></div><div>What do you think?<br><div><br><div id="gmail-m_-5247645792502165539AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Regards<div>Rob</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 19 Feb 2019, at 10:36 am, Alan Stewart via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span>G’day Fellow Spaceniks and other Kindred Spirits <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The items below may be of interest to you.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">They are about the looming perils of climate change and associated ways to consider and act on them, recently come to my attention. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I have followed such matters keenly since I attended a presentation by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/19/james-hansen-nasa-scientist-climate-change-warning" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">James Hansen</a> while living in Hong Kong a decade ago. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">My question: Could bringing <b><a href="https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/" target="_blank">Open Space Technology (OST</a></b>) approaches be a vital means to address constructively the issues we face as global humanity in the now <b>Anthropocene</b> with its perils and opportunities? </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></p><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">See: </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/fear-panic-climate-change-warming.html" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Opinion | Time to Panic - The New York Times</a><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Using Open Space to address climate change matters<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b><a href="https://jembendell.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/deep-adaptation-retreat-uk-2019/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://jembendell.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/deep-adaptation-retreat-uk-2019/</a></b><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We need to have a paradigm shift in how we view society and life.<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b><a href="https://americanminion.blog/2018/12/16/we-need-a-paradigm-shift/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://americanminion.blog/2018/12/16/we-need-a-paradigm-shift/ </a><br></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Also: </b></span><a href="https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/#sf-1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Fourth National Climate Change Assessment</b></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/#sf-1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span> </a><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">(To add: Here is a report, entitled <a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=41&preview=true&preview_id=41&preview_nonce=1f89ef96f3" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=41" target="_blank"><b>Vision, Values and Vibes</b></a> which illustrates my credentials as a Spacenik!) <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span><br></p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><b>Tall orders indeed</b>! Yet are there any means at hand other than <b><a href="https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/" target="_blank">OST</a></b> 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<span></span> inhabitants of our tiny, fragile planet home?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">With young people, particularly school children, crying out for necessary action: </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/07/this-is-the-climate-generation-thousands-of-students-join-netherlands-protest" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/07/this-is-the-climate-generation-thousands-of-students-join-netherlands-protest</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Next such events are happening all around Australia on March 15, 2019. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><b>To conclude:</b><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">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 … <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It is, in my mind, for you younger <b>Spaceniks</b> 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. <span><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Bearing in mind that, as with great works of art, "Which cannot be taken in at a glance" <i>Linguist I.A. Richards</i>, so it will be in your grand adventuring ahead. </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span>Looking forward, indeed.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">👍</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:rgb(51,51,255)" lang="EN-US">Al </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:rgb(51,51,255)"><span></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Al (formerly Alan) Stewart, PhD<br>Process Artist <br>Facilitator of conversations that matter and participatory fun<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Senior Fulbright Scholar <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Blog: <a href="http://www.conversare.net" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">www.conversare.net</a><span class="gmail-m_-5247645792502165539m_-6611824537723897470m_-862289322274760703m_-5255391644456719937m_-1212429210528718023m_-5387264657129362411gmail-m_-897783810684197517gmail-m_-5856580509713552207m_6336251231909951762gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">Member: </span></b><a href="http://www.ntmu.com.au/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">National Trouble Makers Union</span></b></a><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">Residence: Adelaide, South Australia, since 1975 <br>With time away in the USA (1981) and Hong Kong (2005-2011) </span></b><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">_________________________________</span></b><span><span></span></span></p><br><div><img src="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/logo1.png" width="200" height="41"></div><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">"Whenever we treat each other well good things happen."<br>
<i>Al Stewart</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US"><i></i></span></b><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span>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<b> 'The Family of Man'. </b>"The greatest photographic exhibition of all time ..." </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span>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. <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span>You may also find this <a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=537" target="_blank">little story </a>to be uplifting. ☺<br></span></span></p><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span></span></p><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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