CATASTROPHE OR OPPORTUNITY: A PARADIGM SHIFT By Riane Eisler
Our world is lurching from crisis to crisis: climate change, authoritarianism, againgrowing inequality, disinformation, chronic warfare, and nuclear/biological/electronic breakthroughs. These portents of catastrophe urgently call for a fundamental transformation in how we think and act on our fragile planet: a different paradigm. As a child Holocaust refugee from the Nazis, I experienced catastrophic traumas. Fleeing Vienna, where I was born was traumatic. So was growing up in the industrial slums of Havana surrounded by poverty. These formative experiences led me to questions many of us have asked at some point in our lives: Why, when we humans have such enormous capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity has there been so much insensitivity, cruelty, and destructiveness? Does it have to be this way? Is there an alternative? If so, what is it? Image source: Canva MARCH 2024
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