November 2022 - Short-Term Action for Long-Term Change - Contribution to GTI Forum Which Future Are We Living In?

One clear feature of the US landscape, as I have recounted elsewhere, is the increasing probability of a combination of Fortress World and social, environmental, and political Breakdowns. [...] My impression is that this version of Eco-Communalism is more advanced in a number of places around the world than it is in the United States. [...] If this is correct, what seems to be emerging is a foot race: can Policy Reform (from the top) and Eco-communalism (from the bottom) move fast enough to head off the emerging crises and system failures leading to Fortress World and Breakdowns? Despite the ways in which fast- evolving crises like the climate emergency can severely curtail positive possibilities, I believe there is still hope for th. [...] Previously, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute, professor of law at Georgetown University, chairman of the US Council on Environmental Quality in the Carter Administration, and co-founder of and senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. [...] He currently serves on the boards of the New Economy Coalition, the Center for a New American Dream, and the Climate Reality Project.