Issue 317

Our imagination muscle should be taut and well exercised; instead it is flaccid and untoned. I worry that the deeper we get into a crisis such as climate change, the harder it becomes to imagine a way out. Given everything humanity has accomplished, all of it driven by leaps of the imagination, why is envisioning a safer, saner, happier, more peaceful path forward so consistently beyond our reach? Indeed, why does it seem increasingly beyond our reach? My book From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want arose from those questions and others like them, as I was trying to understand why, on the one hand, Transition had taken off beyond everyone’s

Resurgence & Ecologist

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