One of the most important questions of today is – how can we effctively avoid a global catastrophe caused by climate change, by growing inequality, by food shortages, and many other related global problems? For quick effective measures, to ensure that we will not reach irreversible tipping points, it seems to me that political action is more essential than anything else we might be doing. However, to ensure long-term sustainability, rethinking of our status on our planet will be essential. Such a rethinking is being discussed in the report presented below (Maiken).“We are pleased to announce a new and important report, Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities.

Many of our deepest thinkers and many of those most familiar with the scale of the challenges we face have concluded that the changes needed to sustain human and [mehr...]