Hey friends—
Thinking well about the planetary crisis demands that we first process the reality of discontinuity.
A big problem in thinking about discontinuity is that the first step is the longest one: embracing the idea that things can change at scales and speeds that render suddenly obsolete and unstable much of what we still assume is normal, valuable, and durable.
We have to understand that the entire human sphere—our cities and infrastructure, our economy and education system, our farms and factories, our laws and politics—was built for a different world. That world is now in our past.
Our expectations and assumptions also spring from the the assumptions embedded in that world. This makes grappling with planetary discontinuity inevitably also a process of wrestling with personal discontinuity. It forces the changes that we like to think of as “out there” into our own work, our own lives, our own hearts.
