The Human Hub: Decision Making and Communicating with Impact

I choose Hopeful not Hopeless.

While hopelessness is paralysing, hopefulness is energising and motivating.

We all have the opportunities to make decisions, to act, and to speak – to people in power, to support sustainable, ethical and regenerative policies, expenditure, investment and projects. 

See the reality and do something

To some extent, the global climate situation is terrifying, depressing, infuriating – circumstances that can make you feel hopeless, like its not worth your action, your voice, your choices.  

And don’t be mistaken, this is about as serious as it gets – for our generation, our children, and their children to come.  If we don’t turn back the tide before 2030, we will see in our lifetimes the untenable life for future generations as well as feel the impacts ourselves.  Its not enough to reduce some impacts, we actually need to increase somethings – we need to cede substantial choice back to the planet, plants, insects, animals and marine life (choices such as where to roam, when to pollinate in line with seasons).  We need to re-wild large portions of the land and re-generate ecosystems in the land and the oceans.  

But, it can be done.  

We should be hopeful.  We live and work within the very systems that need to be adapted, challenged, reimagined.  Everyone who works, studies, belongs to a political party, lives in a local electorate can do something, can ask questions.  

 Ask Questions, like: 

• what is the organisation, school, university I work for or attend doing to reduce out its impact on the environment, and can they go any faster?   
• what is my local council and local government representative doing to bring immediate solutions, to invest immediate and substantial funding and impetus to regenerate the environment we live in?
• who should I vote for who has some tangible, actionable plans to make a substantial difference, and who has no ties to fossil fuel, monopolistic food or plastics lobbyists or conglomerates?
• what can I do to speak out to share the messages of hope, choice and action to the people around me?

Decide, act and communicate

I always believe that you can turn a situation around by acknowledging the situation, sitting with the emotions it brings, deciding and acting on courses of action that are aimed at reducing or reworking that situation.  That is how we turn disaster to positive possibility, to turn hopeless to hopeful.

What are you doing today to ask the questions or come up with the answers that will force the changes we need?

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