A fabulous event Friday night in San Francisco as environmental superstar Paul Hawken spoke about the state of the world 100 days out from Rio+20. Hawken was on hand to introduce UK Barrister and ecocide advocate Polly Higgins on the last leg of her fundraising trip through NorCal and Canada.
Without doubt, the most enervating aspect of Hawken's musings was his perception that we have already arrived at the place we have for so long been dreading: climate change is happening, has happened. We are now living in a modern day dark ages, most of us unaware or in denial because we have so successfully been distracted by a universe of diversions courtesy of the technological revolution.
Hawken's message was one of hope. There is a great relief, this shrugging off of the dread. This "letting go" of this oppressive weight of our fear of the future opens us up, lightens us to recognize and respond to the potential of transformation. To change the game plan, alter the rules, reframe the debate and thus begin the work for tomorrow today. Wow! I was inspired.
Through the dung and dust, through the density of the disaster, lights are shining. Higgins' work, he said, is one of those lights.
Now, Sven was there and I'm sure he has a great deal more to add to this posting and the transcript of both Hawken's and Higgins presentations will be available later this week. But I use this here to segue into news on actions on the 100th day before Rio+20.
