Facing the Abyss
The last several posts have been about navigating the gritty realism before us. This one follows suit. And gives the reason I choose to focus on thrivability. Months burn by bringing ever more forecasts of catastrophe. Ocean ph, glacier melt, that crazy island of plastic in the Pacific, economic meltdown, emergent disease, famine, and so much more. Those who believe that we are god’s chosen people stand in stoic denial, and the rest of us can sense the weight of imminent convergent crisis. At first I was hopeful that we could address these issues. Then I was saddened as the bombardment of horror stories of a terrible future kept coming. Before long I felt myself o

Choosing Life
In a recent conversation about thrivability, population issues came up. Will co-creating a thrivable world mean that we control population and to what extent? I am sure some could make an argument for a radical altering of the human population as a strategy to get to a thrivable world, considering what a drain on resources so many people on the planet are. This is not what the person in conversation with me was suggesting. However, I can imagine it. And I can imagine the case for it. Do we all die from impending crisis, or do we make some difficult choices about who gets to live so that the species and the planet can continue. Let me be super clear, I do not think that particu