Please cry with me….

I have been working with a group of active learners from around the world to apply the discipline of systems thinking to the climate crisis. This working group is sponsored by Common Earth and I recommend anyone who wants to struggle collectively to understand and develop an effective response to climate chaos to take one of their free classes.

One of the lessons that has emerged for me in this work is the reminder, once again, that “thinking alone is not enough” to address the problem of radical climate change.  Nor is anger, fear or blame particularly effective. And this awareness applies not only to climate, but many other of the problems we face, including the chaos created by the new U.S. president. Indeed, each morning for the past month or so, when I read the news and eat my granola, I let myself feel grief.