massive change

You've heard about it. The premise is that the world is changing massively. And that such massive change is necessary if we are to survive as species on this planet.

That's a lot to absorb. Personally you have to admit a lot of things are changing, and the pace and scale of change is pretty, well, massive, but...

two things:

1. massive change kind of assumes we need to change a lot in order to stay the same, e.g., the current climate-sort-of-situation; we want to keep that, or at least avoid hurricanes in New Orleans and windstorms in Vancouver, and

2. we are in control... this is the whole premise of the captital M massive and capital C change... that "design" will be the way we orchestrate and manage change, and design, being a function of control-types, like CEOs, and NASA, doesn't really have too much to do with you and me.

however, I predict it will be not long before them, named above, and us start talking not about how to control change, but about how to adapt to change... e.g.

- no warming Gulf Stream, i.e., a much colder Europe and UK...
- melted polar ice caps and higher ocean levels worldwide... stilts anyone?
- depleted oceans as a food source... pass the rice...
- no Oxygen producing rain forests (lungs of the planet)... cough, cough
etc. etc.

the fact is the disconnect between West and East and developed and developing worlds is too profound to be overcome within my lifetime... but, being an eternal optimist, let's consider some things that we (you and me) might, together, massively change, the first of which I proposed some time ago here:
dog treats and grooming pay for Katrina's costs

So, let's look at the stats and find the nickels and dimes among our millions and billions that can, actually, produce change.

For ref: www.massivechange.com/

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