“We can predict with certainty that we will be surprised; we can and do anticipate an array of catastrophic events. Unfortunately we can also predict with certainty that when they come, we will be inadequately prepared.” Fukuyama 2007. (As cited in Valikangas pg 40.)

“The past half-century, a period of extraordinary economic growth has exposed the frailties of our biological environment as never before, in a globally interconnected way. By 2020, or perhaps sooner, it will be impossible to reverse the devastating effects of global warming. The past decades of population and economic growth have simply been too taxing for our planet’s powers of resilience.” (Valikangas pg 7).

  • FOUR YEARS. GO
    • Collaborative action
    • Empowering individuals and organisations to set and reach goals that will cause a positive global tipping point.

 “Don’t try to come up with the right answers ; focus on coming up with good questions” – Bill Lazier, Stanford Professor.

  • How do we shift the direction of humanity to create a more “environmentally sustainable” future?
  • How do we avoid the problems outlined in Diamond’s book?
  • How do we know (or be convinced) that we are heading towards a “systemic breakdown”?
    • “Conventional wisdom, however, is that you can’t expect humanity to wake up until it is shocked into action by some global catastrophe or massively painful systemic breakdown. But by the time that happens it will almost certainly be too late.” – 4YG.
  • How do we get people to attend to the dynamics of their actions?