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What steps can be immediately taken to prepare all world societies for the pending "Long Emergency" associated with the convergence of peak oil, distruction of biodiversity, climate change, poverty, and global disease? Mike Walters


Answer

Timothy Speed: Personally I don’t think that we are facing a disaster. I don’t believe this because my focus is not on seeing what is daily presented to us in the news. Not to see what is revealed to us by the media as a disastrous szenario. And in my opinion the focus shouldn’t be on eternally playing Cassandra, warning of disaster. You cannot prompt people to do anything by this. What I see is that we start gradually and slowly to overcome our fear induced congealment and start to look in each other’s eyes and recognize ourselves in the others. That we start a dialogue. What we experience here is nothing else than a starting dialogue, part of a dialogue, a change. I believe that crises are always chances as well, that crises are also tasks. [Dash it!] I think this is a very definite task, a task concerning problems, which we can solve. We have to start by beginning to talk to each other, to start to communicate about the problems. We have to discover a new feeling of ‘we’ inside of us. We have to strengthen this feeling. I am not afraid of what is going to happen in the future because fear reveals no way to a solution. What is the worst that could happen? Ask yourself what would be the worst that could happen. And then ask yourself again what would still be left. What still remains is here inside, what still remains are we. It is about our dreams and our inner visions. Everything we accomplished, everything we achieved. This is what makes us humans. And this is what is going to help us to cope with challenges of the future.