Dot's connecting

without life, Earth would look much life its moon [Earthrise image credit NASA]

One of our long-standing complaints about main stream media [MSM] is the frequently poor job it does connecting the dots. MSM seems to be trained and educated to see and present everything without putting anything into a context. Let's not even begin to consider what MSM tries to present as fair and balanced coverage. Recently, through no effort of our own, we've been encountered a number of dots that we believe need connecting. Consider this a follow up to our short series on climate change behavior change checklists. Here are the five dots we see that are connected but not enough folks know it:

• We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN
  
  
• New outlook on global warming: Best prepare for social collapse, and soon
  Ron Meador
  
  
• Don't despair: the climate fight is only over if you think it is
  Rebecca Solnit
  
  
• Leaders move past Trump to protect world from climate change
  
  
• BUSINESS AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
  Best practices to seize opportunity and maximise credibility
  
  

  

  SDGs align with the top 5 global medium-term risks identified in the WEF Global Risks Report 2016

  
  

Climate change is developing more rapidly and severely than the conservative estimates indicated. The effects may be more severe than anticipated. Giving up is not an option since it means we lose without even trying. Others are flowing around obstacles. There are markets to be won and profits to be made by responding to not only climate change but a number of other emerging issues that could make the world less sustainable for humanity. The options are lose-lose or win-win. Business, and politics, as usual is a losing strategy.

Our natural inclination is to be like Eeyore and look for the worst outcome (see Madore's piece). What we know we need to buy into is Solnit's perspective. Are you connecting any dots these days? Do they lead to a winning or a losing strategy? As a recovering planner, one of the dictums we remember from our days a a practicing planner is that "More of the same never solved a problem." The odds are really good that the earth will continue for quite some time. The question is whether it will do so with or without us humans.

Looking

Robert Kelly, 1935

Once when I read the funnies
I took my little magnifying glass
and looked too close.

Forms became colors and colors
were just arrays of dots
and between the dots I saw the rough bleak
storyless legend of the pulp paper
empty as the winter moon

and I dreaded it.
I had looked right through,
when I wanted a universe
that sustains
looker and looking and the seen
forever, detail after detail
never ending. And all I had found
was between. But between
had its own song:
Find it in the space between—

it is just as empty as it seems
but this blankness is your mother.

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