Shaping a Compassionate World

Building social justice through teaching social and emotional literacy to preschool children will advance cooperation, collaboration, and common purpose in meeting the climate crisis and pursuing better human and planetary outcomes

Can we find a way through the planet’s existential crises — climate emergency, pollution, biodiversity loss — with the mindset and thinking that has brought us to a broken world?

This is the existential question we must face, as we consider how to pursue the shift in attitudes needed to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis, while pursuing inclusive climate resilience that leaves no one behind.

It is one of the key questions addressed in The Digital Economist’s new publication, Meeting the Climate Challenge.

Let me frankly admit an open embrace of utopian thinking. I proudly admit that this perspective flies in the face of the sadness and misery that afflict the lives of much of humankind.

And yes, it is an unabashed celebration of the possibilities that await, rooted in the deep experience of the societies that have come before us.