One of today's wicked messes is the paradox of the Anthropo cene: human systems affect the global systems that support life in what seems to be headed for a slow-motion systems crash. Finding solutions requires Anthropocene thinking, understanding points of leverage within these systems dynamics so as to reset a course for a better future. This level of complexity adds to layers of others fac ing leaders today, as challenges escalate into messes.
For instance, through the health and ecological impacts of our lifestyle, the world's richest people are creating disproportionate pain for the world's poorest. We need to reinvent our economic systems themselves, factoring in human needs, not just economic growth.
Take the growing gap between very richest and most powerful and poorest worldwide. While the rich hold power, as we've seen this very status can blind them to the true conditions of the poor, leaving them indifferent to their suffering. Who, then, can speak truth to power?
"Civilizations should be judged not by how they treat people closest to power, but rather how they treat those furthest from power-whether in race, religion, gender, wealth, or class-as well as in time," says Larry Brilliant. "A great civilization would have compassion and love for them, too."
While the perks and pleasures of a robust economy are allur ing, there are also the "diseases of civilization," like diabetes and heart disease, which are worsened by the rigors and stresses of the routines that make those lifestyles possible (plus, of course, by that economic marvel, junk food). This problem intensifies as we fail in much of the world to make medical services equally available to all.
One of today's wicked messes is the paradox of the Anthropo cene: human systems affect the global systems that support life in what seems to be headed for a slow-motion systems crash. Finding solutions requires Anthropocene thinking, understanding points of leverage within these systems dynamics so as to reset a course for a better future. This level of complexity adds to layers of others fac ing leaders today, as challenges escalate into messes.
For instance, through the health and ecological impacts of our lifestyle, the world's richest people are creating disproportionate pain for the world's poorest. We need to reinvent our economic systems themselves, factoring in human needs, not just economic growth.
Take the growing gap between very richest and most powerful and poorest worldwide. While the rich hold power, as we've seen this very status can blind them to the true conditions of the poor, leaving them indifferent to their suffering. Who, then, can speak truth to power?
"Civilizations should be judged not by how they treat people closest to power, but rather how they treat those furthest from power-whether in race, religion, gender, wealth, or class-as well as in time," says Larry Brilliant. "A great civilization would have compassion and love for them, too."
While the perks and pleasures of a robust economy are allur ing, there are also the "diseases of civilization," like diabetes and heart disease, which are worsened by the rigors and stresses of the routines that make those lifestyles possible (plus, of course, by that economic marvel, junk food). This problem intensifies as we fail in much of the world to make medical services equally available to all.
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