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September 2009 
Climate Leadership?
Posted on Aug 15th, 2009
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Peter
Peter
A few days back from Brazil, and it is still all sinking in. The 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign is well and truly launched. People were very appreciative of the role I played leading the design and facilitation, as well as having lots of great ideas about how to take it forward.
Today, sitting on the beach with the family, I was talking to my wife about it all. Coming out of that conversation, there was part of me that was "lit up" or irritated. I realised that it had to do with the implications of me really committing to this work. (I was reading Six Degrees by Mark Lynas, which helped it sink in!).
As it all churned around, I turned to my I Ching to see what it might show. Holding a question about me and my relationship to this campaign and issue, I couldn't be bothered with doing the stalks (as I usually do) so just requested that the book open at the appropriate page. This is what was on that page:
17 Following
You are being drawn forward through a strong attraction. Follow the inevitable course of events. Yield to the path set out in front of you, the path of least resistance. Be guided by the way things are moving. You are involved in a series of events that are firmly connected. This can open up a new time. It will bring fundamental success, profit and insight. It is not a mistake. The call has come. Let go of what is past. A new focus is emerging. Dim your discriminating power so old habits can dissolve. The whole world must follow the times and the seasons. You are following a righteous idea inherent in the time.
OK. I surrender.
Today, sitting on the beach with the family, I was talking to my wife about it all. Coming out of that conversation, there was part of me that was "lit up" or irritated. I realised that it had to do with the implications of me really committing to this work. (I was reading Six Degrees by Mark Lynas, which helped it sink in!).
As it all churned around, I turned to my I Ching to see what it might show. Holding a question about me and my relationship to this campaign and issue, I couldn't be bothered with doing the stalks (as I usually do) so just requested that the book open at the appropriate page. This is what was on that page:
17 Following
You are being drawn forward through a strong attraction. Follow the inevitable course of events. Yield to the path set out in front of you, the path of least resistance. Be guided by the way things are moving. You are involved in a series of events that are firmly connected. This can open up a new time. It will bring fundamental success, profit and insight. It is not a mistake. The call has come. Let go of what is past. A new focus is emerging. Dim your discriminating power so old habits can dissolve. The whole world must follow the times and the seasons. You are following a righteous idea inherent in the time.
OK. I surrender.
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Yes, Peter, it is a strong and deeply involving matter that asks us (that's my reading of this 'project') to engage.
I was having a conversation with Dave Pollard the other day and his take on the climate crisis which, in his understanding has already gone beyond the tipping point… similar, I guess to “Six Degrees”. I found that really all of that doesn't worry me too much, even though I'm grandfather and therefor have a felt connection to our future. It helps to remember that one of the great pioneers, Christopher Columbus, expected the world to end 1650…
What powers me up since quite a while is this: The “greedy, ambitious ones” have created whole economic and socio-political empires. We are part of that movement that wants to do that very much differently. I want us to succeed in surpassing the “old school economy”; I want us to co-create a massive movement where we joyfully, humanely and beautifully do business - economy2.0 - that outdoes the old school in every important way.
And I am very happy that we are on this path together.