<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Gary Cleveland</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.cleveland80@gmail.com">gary.cleveland80@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:14 AM<br>Subject: My response, and intro from Paul Raskin<br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">Thrilled my response has gone out to the GTNetwork. And delighted to have the opportunity to introduce the ideas of Organisations, their Ethos and Stakeholders to such a massive audience??<br><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Gary<br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"> </p><p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"><br></p><p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"><br></p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">Response GTN May 2019</p>
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<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">Considerations – </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">1. WHAT IS THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT’S
STATE OF PLAY?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">2. “SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE
CHANGE?”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">3. DO WE NEED A META-MOVEMENT?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">My profound thanks to Paul for
opening and simplifying this massive area by posing these three considerations
as it allows me to respond – [hopefully succinctly]. I will enumerate my reply
in hope that my opinions are more easily undertstood and, thus, of value?</p>
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<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span>I
hurdle the first and address a combination of No’s 2 and 3.</p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"> </p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span>I
have always considered “Climate Change”, though terrifying, a blessing for, as
a personal threat inducing fear in all humans, it acts as a window to the big
room where has long lurked the problems that demand a <b>‘meta’ - ‘system’ –
change, </b><span style="font-weight:normal">in other words, A Great
Transition, GT. [I am sure I don’t need remind anyone that we are the ‘G T
Network’? GT]</span></p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"> </p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"><span style="color:green">3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>So,
the question comes down to how do we speed the advance to the GT? Paul gives
one all important answer when he notes we need – “<span style="color:green">build
overarching alliances and movements” </span>and then<span style="color:green">
“bind--- disparate movements into a coherent force for a just and sustainable
future”</span></p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"> </p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">4.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span>I<span style="color:green"> </span>maintain the prime reason the world have been so
slow towards a GT is that almost all humans avoid either ‘building’ or
‘binding’. [To our own disgrace, we have deflected doing this within the area
of great non-profit organisations, even though,<span> </span>we are all key stakeholders to them.]</p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"> </p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">5.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman""> </span>If
we ponder the three great sectors of organisations; namely –</p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 72pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">A.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span>for-profit - commerce and industry; </p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 72pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">B.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span>non-profit - community, such as health, education, religion
etc; </p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 72pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">C.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span>government - at all levels. </p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 54pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"><span> </span>the sad answer is that only the commerce sector
has succeeded, partly, in creating alliances, eg - WRI, WBCSD, the Bteam, etc.
and, that national governments make endless attempts that either fail totally
or fail within the time scale that fate allows us? But, you and I in the
non-profits community sector [whom profess to know the need.] have not even
tried - until, maybe, now! </p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"> </p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"> </p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">I believe it is not too fanciful to
imagine we, the Great Transition Network within Tellus, can provide the impetus
and leadership that ‘builds’ and ‘binds’ a coherent force. [The notable success
folk like Ceres, Volans, p2p, GreenBiz etc. have achieved as individuals is
truly remarkable. One can only wonder how much faster we will move if they
combine to partake in forming that ‘force’?]</p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"> </p>
<p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times">My response to Paul’s invitation is
that I am convinced that pressure from us, the thousand plus GTNetwork, as key
stakeholders can build and bind an ethos to allow the coherent force to lead to
a<b> </b><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>just</b></span><b> </b><span style="font-weight:normal">and</span><b> </b><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>sustainable</b></span><b>
future</b><span style="font-weight:normal">.</span></p><p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></p><p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-weight:normal">- - - - - - - - -<br></span></p><p class="m_-5672610171662223557gmail-MsoHeader" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></p><br><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal">Great Transition Network</p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal">From Paul Raskin
<<a href="mailto:praskin@tellus.org" target="_blank">praskin@tellus.org</a>></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal">We launched our current series on
key social movements in November 2017 with a rich discussion of a “global
citizens movement” as the missing historical agent for a Great Transition (the
GTN exchange is archived at
<a href="http://www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/201-how-do-we-get-there-the-problem-of-action" target="_blank">www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/201-how-do-we-get-there-the-problem-of-action</a>).
A recurrent theme has been how the portentous issue of climate change infuses
all social and environmental mobilizations.</p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal">Our May discussion will focus
directly on the climate movement, per se. With so many of us active in this
diverse arena, centering the GTN discussion on a specific essay seems overly
restrictive. Instead, I invite you all to respond, succinctly or at length, to
one or more of the following questions:</p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal">WHAT IS THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT’S STATE
OF PLAY?</p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal">What has worked, and where has the
movement fallen short? What lessons can be drawn for the next phase?</p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal">“SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE?”</p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal">Does defusing the climate crisis require
the deep structural and value changes of a Great Transition? Or can “green
capitalism” get us there? Where do you stand on the reform versus
transformation debate?</p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal">DO WE NEED A META-MOVEMENT?</p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal">To the degree that climate change is
a symptom, along with other crises, of deeply embedded structural problems,
does the climate movement need to build overarching alliances and movements?
Does the climate movement, by addressing a signal existential threat, have a
special role in binding disparate movements into a coherent force for a just
and sustainable future?</p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal">To kick off the discussion, we asked
<a href="http://350.org" target="_blank">350.org</a> founder Bill McKibben to respond to each of these questions (soon to
arrive in your inbox -- and also attached). What Bill says (and doesn’t say)
may provoke some thoughts of your own.</p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Times" class="MsoNormal"> </p><br></div></div></div>
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