The only time to act is now.
The future is an outcome of our actions today.
Today we have an opportunity to act with intent and purpose. We can design an outcome that is in balance with nature.
Never before and perhaps never again will we have this unique opportunity. The advent of climate change, and the science around it has matured, our technologies have been passed into the hands of enough individual humans for us all to access the information we need to make informed decisions.
The data, the applications, the tools and the information that we need are available.
We have a brief window in time that has opened. That we have opened that offers a pathway to define our future and protect our agency.
If we lose our agency as individuals we will lose more than our freedom, we will lose a large part of what it means to being human. We risk becoming subservient to lifeless entities.
Today we are faced with this choice to determine our futures and to determine the well-being of many other species, and to recognise our potential as stewards of the systems that support life on Earth.
Our opportunity is to imagine a future state that is plausible, possible and preferable and to work towards that future state, because it is what’s good and right for our children, and for future generations and for biodiversity and for economic growth, and for many other motives that drive humans on earth.
The future is not some place we are going but a place we are making with every decision we make everyday. The urgency is immediate and the information is available.
How we measure and manage different sources of capital (natural, social, financial) over time needs to be considered.
Our relationship with time is interesting; we move with it, we move through it and it passes us by.
Everything we do relates to time. Like driving into a tree at 100mph, everything relates to time, timing and even how quickly we can react in relation to time.
