Native Perspectives 2

After demands for a more accessible style, this:

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• the ones that make decisions re sustainability are not fit for the job. To be more precise: lack adequate consciousness (time 27.00) / systemic awareness & clout
  • example1: the Dutch gov’t’s policy re sustainability in a recent peer review is labeled ‘not a sustainable policy’ and in a recent PhD-research: ‘whimsical and risk avoiding’
  • example2: John Hofmeister (US colleague of mr van der Veer), ms’s van der Hoeven and Cramer on Carbon Capture and sequestration or bio fuels. Too little, too late (bio fuels: time 13.00). This is about addiction (time 15.12) and reshuffling the deck chairs of the Titanic
  • example3: commercial organizations have a single bottom line, no matter what is communicated
  • example4: NGO’s have clear and expedient criticism, but lack perspective how to proceed
  • example5: burghers are not aware (time 0.28, time 9.50), kept that way more or less happily and the new boys have other agenda’s like this

• there’s hope though:
  • we (time 26.30) can come up with new stories, a new mythology
    • clear thinking, acting and communicating on clean electricity
    • clear thinking, acting and communicating on electric cars
    • clear thinking on where we come from
    • clear thinking on where we can go, like offering all people safe drinking water and abundant water for irrigation, for the natural gas we need anyway

• this way:
  • start light house like projects near by and on the horizon, that empower us to dream and realize them
    • burghers, consumers, voters, designers, NGO’s and gov’t can facilitate social and not so social entrepreneurs
    • make it engaging for all to participate
    • make it attractive for main stream media to
      • show best of class
      • name and shame