Simon Sinek's The Optimism Company’s Post

Reminds me of Wubbo Ockles' (1st Dutch astronaut) last words shortly before he died, to the effect of "The Earth has cancer; I have cancer too." He went on to remind us of his faith in the tremendous capacity of people to rise to the occasion to save everything. This is much like the amazing inspiration from Thomas Berry that as we bring to an end the Cenozoic Era, we will give rise to the Ecozoic, that time when humans become mutually beneficial to all of life. This moment requests a change of transformational magnitude in human spirit.

Er zal méér hierover gesproken en ondernomen moeten worden, zeker nu de Amerikaanse oranje onwaarheden à 100 km/uur op iedereen afgevuurd zullen worden. ;-)

Thanks for your video Simon Sinek's The Optimism Company. Certainly, it makes us re-think metrics (momentum vs. absolutes); messaging - save our human race at the same time as saving our planet to allow humans, animals etc., to thrive. We all have it within us to do small and large things to achieve this. What are we getting right Simon Sinek's The Optimism Company? and let's do more of it? And let's ask ourselves and help each other to do more!

Great saying! thank you for sharing this message Simon Sinek. The vocabulary used is of extreme importance and we have to be careful with the words we chose. Everything is changing: our drugs, our robots, our way of doing business...So why wouldn't the climate also change??? Fighting climate change is stupid because it means let's stay how we are... Climate Cancer seems like better wording. And then Saving the Planet indeed makes absolutely no sense! The Population has Gone Bananas! There is too much groupthink these days because there is too much data, too many FB likes in the cloud, too much money in the system since the 2000s, and too many Filters and emojis.... We really got to be careful especially with the younger generation. Too much Groupthink in how people make decisions, chose their words, chose a career etc. There is less authenticity and critical thinking these days and it's a tragedy.

Persist the Holocene!

... yeah, I agree mostly, because most people are the "selfish" type, not the "collective/social" type and think basically in him/herself & extend that to his/her friends/family. No empathy beyond that. Not humans, not other animals, plants... you have to change the focus to show the things that _directly_ affects the people. Greetings from South America.

I couldn't agree more! I have been working on climate change for many years and communicating the gravity of the issue to someone who is not in the day-to-day is really hard. At the same time, all of us who work on this subject, get so immersed and drunk in the immensity of data that makes us think in our own bubble, furthering the communication gap with the non-climate actors. Let's replace the image of the drowning polar bear with the one of a suburbanite with no access to food or energy!

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A few points, delivered well. Nothing I haven't heard before or thought of before. Wrong labels, wrong messages, 'agenda-biased data', policy vacuums, extortion of subsidies...with the only absolute being 100% of all models are wrong. Labelling - created by the media, to super-sensationalise and to sell a 'story'! Message - More often than not a 'band-aid' message to push an agenda. Data - Why strawman a 30-50 year plan based on a very small climate-data sample size? Policy Vacuums - Exist due to not enough truthful data to enable full government commitment. I gave my first public speech on Ozone depletion and the Greenhouse effect back in '87. A lot has changed/been uncovered/been dismissed/been manipulated since then, mainly the labelling! Still, deforestation is rife, waste is out-of-control and there is not enough research into passive solar supported micro-grids. The temperature levels are and always will be a lagging metric. Identify and focus on the leading factors.