Wild Fox Zen
Just read “The Bright Green City: Alex Steffen’s Optimistic Environmentalism,” in the April, 2010 The Sun, and am encouraged about the possibilities for the future. This is the kind of going-beyond gloom and doom, despair and paralysis that warms my little heart.
Steffen thinks we’ve got 25 years to make the changes that need to be made to save the planet but sees what may be the beginning of a groundswell of public opinion and action.
“We have five years to start making big changes, twenty years to finish making them here, and at most another forty years to spread those changes to every corner of the earth,” he says.
“Optimism,” he says, “is a political act…. What’s really radical is being willing to look right at the problems we face and still insist that we can solve them.”
Click here for Steffen’s blog with lots of good thinking about the mess the world’s in and what we can do about it.
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