for: quote - when we get our story wrong, we get our future wrong, quote - Thomas Homer-Dixon

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• When we get our story wrong, we get our future wrong

• "Human institutions are purely human creations.
• Their only legitimate purpose is to serve the people on whom their existence ultimately depends.
• If institutions fail to serve us, then it is our right to eliminate or transform them."

• David Korten

for: caste system, caste, inequality, carbon inequality,

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• "The surplus of life’s labor
• is not sufficient to continue bearing the burden of a caste system
• devoted to controlling the many so a few can indulge in egotistical displays of privilege on a dying Earth. -The more of humanity’s labor we devote to maintaining the system of domination (by the few),
• the less that is available to secure life’s wellbeing (for all) and the more rapid the living system’s collapse."

• David Korten

parantheses

• Stop Reset Go

new adjacency

• articulating inequality as a caste system

for: ecological civilization, climate emergency, climate EMERGEncy inner/outer transformation, eco civilization, rapid whole system change

Title

• Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence

• David Korten

• May 25, 2021

• "“We will prosper in the pursuit of life, or we will perish in the pursuit of money. The choice is ours.”

• David Korten

• "We see virtually no prospect that the Wall Street system will transform itself from within.
• Change depends on citizen’s working from outside the establishment
  • to create from the bottom up a New Economy based on new values and institutions."

• David Korten

• The Great Turning

• David Korten

• David Korten describes "the great unraveling" as a multi-dimensional ecological, social and economic crisis