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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fascinating
discussion. Here are some of my thoughts...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The problem with
unfettered growth:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>towards a steady
state<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>by David Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Following
the release of Britain’s Review on the Economics of Climate Change by Sir
Nicholas Stern, there was a surge in reporting about climate change and its
possible consequences. The reason this has sparked interest among politicians
and some business people seems to be the conclusion that expenditure on
countering global warming will not amount to a cost, but to a saving of
potentially billions of dollars as the potentially dire effects of melting
icecaps, rising sea levels and shifting rainfall patterns are offset.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>But
why is it that our business and political leaders only sniff trouble when there
are dollars involved? I believe the answer lies in the failure of human
societies, of whatever political persuasion, to grasp the reality that humans
are an integral part of the living world, not in any way separate from it. For
hundreds, possibly thousands of years, we have turned our backs on our
underlying biology and this has had critical consequences – now we have reached
pay-back time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In
the mid-1800s the French physiologist Claude Bernard wrote eloquently about
what he termed the ‘milieu interne’, by which he meant the internal chemical
environment of our bodies. Walter Cannon took this further, introducing the ‘doctrine
of homeostasis’ whereby, despite external variations, the chemical composition
of our cells and their bathing fluids is normally maintained within remarkably
close tolerances. Over the past century, it became ever clearer that whether we
are speaking about the internal workings of our bodies, or about the dynamics
of how whole populations or ecosystems operate, in biology steady states are
the norm. Too great a deviation from the steady state leads inevitably to
death. James Lovelock attempted to encapsulate this notion of planetary
homeostasis in his Gaia hypothesis and physiologists have long understood the
importance of the body’s internal regulatory systems and gained great insights
into how they achieve the regulation of blood pressure, tissue oxygenation,
glucose levels and all those other myriad variables which if left unregulated
will surely kill us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As
our society has developed we have progressively uncoupled ourselves from our
underlying biology. In our writings and musings we have seen ourselves as
different to the animals and certainly superior to them, placing ourselves with
no hint of modesty at the top of the evolutionary tree. The greater the
divergence between us and our biology, the more important has our technology
become in bridging the ever-widening gap. Thus we have remained comfortable
with the scheme of things even though the environmental cost of this
technological band-aid has been increasing exponentially.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Why
do we continue living as though we were not a part of nature? One of the root
causes has to do with the rise to global dominance of the market economy and
its underpinning assumptions and pre-requisites, one of which is continuous
growth. Even in his recent impassioned writings, scientist Tim Flannery has
found it necessary to rely on market forces – in this case carbon trading – to
produce continued ‘development’, productivity and future wealth. I think
Flannery is partly correct in this, but his argument doesn’t go anywhere near
far enough. At a deeper level we should be thinking about how and why global
warming has come about and why we have been so reticent to address it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If
our economic theories rely absolutely on the assumption of continuous economic
growth, and yet we live on a planet in which continuous growth is plainly
impossible, then our economic theories must be seen as being fatally flawed.
This of course, seems almost comically divorced from reality but it’s not. We
need, as a matter of the utmost urgency, to seek out ways by which our human
society can re-couple itself with our underlying biology and work towards
operating the way the rest of the planet does, ultimately achieving a societal
– and economic – steady state. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Interestingly,
Anne and Paul Ehrlich, authors of the 1968 book <i>The Population Bomb</i>,
have recently added their voices to the debate by pointing up the possible
benefits – economic and otherwise – of a declining world population. Far from
creating the catastrophe forecast by our economists – whose theories are really
about as primitive in a predictive sense as was the theory of blood flow prior
to William Harvey – negative growth may be a very good thing indeed, enabling
us to move more swiftly to a truly sustainable steady state society. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Just
as inappropriate use of fresh water is coming to be seen as profligate – even
criminal – so societal models that cannot operate in the absence of continued
growth will also come to be seen as highly inappropriate and destined for the
scrap heap. Plant and animal populations frequently demonstrate local boom and
bust cycles where herbivores eat themselves out of vegetation or booming
carnivore populations eat themselves out of house and home. In such situations
the consequences for both individual animals and populations can be severe. It
may be that global warming, by signalling the onset of a major catastrophe, is
offering humanity an opportunity – indeed an imperative – to radically re-think
its priorities. If we can achieve that, and do so in time, then the climate
crisis may actually have been a very good thing indeed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>With
extreme predictions of 25 metre sea level increases following polar icecap
melting, perhaps we should have filmed the office scene at Williamstown
completely underwater!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dr
David Smith BSc(Hons), PhD, FRSA is a Melbourne zoologist, writer and film
maker.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSList
[mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brett Barndt
via OSList<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 19 February, 2019 12:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Brett Barndt<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] OST as a way to go in addressing climate change
and other perils<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Has any paradigm ever changed from the center? Is it not the
edgewalkers and outsiders who bring change to systems? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Here are some marginalized views to consider. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>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. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>He asks the question how is it that the last tree
was cut down on the Easter Islands? <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>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. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>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. <o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>These views are not part of the voices in the dominant
discourse. They are counter-narrative voices, marginalized by the academy,
journals, and media. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Alan,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>It is time for us to think why has the system rejected
action on dealing with human influences on climate?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>We then could use our shared experience to validate positive
action to work with nature and reduce our pollution and unsustainable
practices!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>What do you think?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Rob<o:p></o:p></p>
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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>>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'> G’day Fellow Spaceniks and
other Kindred Spirits </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>The items below may be of interest to
you.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>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 style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>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"
target="_blank">James Hansen</a> while living in Hong Kong a decade ago. </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>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? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>See: </span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/fear-panic-climate-change-warming.html"
target="_blank">Opinion | Time to Panic - The New York Times</a></span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'> </span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>Using Open Space to address climate
change matters</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'><a
href="https://jembendell.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/deep-adaptation-retreat-uk-2019/"
target="_blank">https://jembendell.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/deep-adaptation-retreat-uk-2019/</a></span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><b> </b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><b>We need to have a paradigm
shift in how we view society and life.</b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'><a
href="https://americanminion.blog/2018/12/16/we-need-a-paradigm-shift/"
target="_blank">https://americanminion.blog/2018/12/16/we-need-a-paradigm-shift/
</a></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>Also: </span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
href="https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/#sf-1" target="_blank"><b><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Fourth National Climate Change
Assessment</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>(To add: Here is a report,
entitled <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!) </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>Tall orders indeed</span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>! 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 inhabitants of our tiny, fragile planet
home?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>With young people, particularly
school children, crying out for necessary action: </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'><a
href="https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/07/this-is-the-climate-generation-thousands-of-students-join-netherlands-protest"
target="_blank">https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/07/this-is-the-climate-generation-thousands-of-students-join-netherlands-protest</a></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>Next such events are happening all
around Australia on March 15, 2019. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>To conclude:</span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>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 style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>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><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>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><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>Looking forward, indeed.👍</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'> </span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><i><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:#3333FF'>Al </span></i></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Al
(formerly Alan) Stewart, PhD<br>
Process Artist <br>
Facilitator of conversations that matter and participatory fun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>Senior Fulbright Scholar </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Blog:
<a href="http://www.conversare.net" target="_blank">www.conversare.net</a><u><span
style='color:blue'><br>
</span></u></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><br>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Member:
<a href="http://asc-cybernetics.org/" target="_blank">American Society for Cybernetics</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>Member: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ntmu.com.au/"
target="_blank"><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%'>National
Trouble Makers Union</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>Residence: Adelaide, South Australia, since 1975 <br>
With time away in the USA (1981) and Hong Kong (2005-2011) </span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>_________________________________</span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>"Whenever we treat each other well good things happen."<br>
<i>Al Stewart</i></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>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
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>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. </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'>You may also find this <a
href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=537" target="_blank">little
story </a>to be uplifting. ☺</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'> </span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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