Bridget McKenzie, Flow Associates

Five years left to cry in? The means to a flourishing life

“If we wish to avoid a 4C world:We have less than 5 years to see global emissions peak, then decline rapidly at 5-9% pa.An unprecedented challenge. Existing political & corporate processes will not deliver either:•the level of...innovation and implementation required•in time, or in substance”

Ian T. Dunlop, 2011

The tech for any new energy source typically takes 30 years BUT

Breaching of safe planetary boundaries

By sustaining life, I mean humans as part of global commons of diverse life

Not just the survivors like ants

True name: ‘Hairy crazy ant’

Comforts, skills, tools, traditions

Challenges, problems, changes

Divergence at the core

Peer-to-peer

Plurality

Play

Praxis

Learning Planet model: copyright Bridget McKenzie

Common Cause ‘deep frames’

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Root issue: Belief that wealth = wellbeing

I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs

To live & feel better we have to see the worst

Save water or the goldfish gets it

Turn carbon into ploughshares

Who has the power to engineer the turn?

Some co’s e.g. Philips are leading way 1970s 2010s

Own the change: make your company

Farm:shop in Dalston – a farm in a shop

Woollen line – Pip Woolf

Why is Nowhereisland valuable?

“All the somebody peopleand all the nobody people...I never thought I neededso many people”

Power of imagination with open purpose

We will need to do more than this, so:• Persistent pressure on companies &

media to turn• Fight for Ecocide to be an international crime against peace• Tea Makipaa’s 10 commandments for

21st Century• Put your money & time in eco innovation