If Biodiversity Is Our Garden Of Eden, Where Does It Start? You Missed It Already!

You think Pandemics and Biodiversity have nothing to do with Agriculture? Think again!

Coronavirus, pandemics. I google for “pandemics biodiversity” (excluding double quotes) and Google gives me 15 million results. Everybody is talking about pandemics and biodiversity! Like so:

“Biodiversity Loss Is Hurting Our Ability To Combat Pandemics” – weforum.org
“Biodiversity, Pandemics And The Circle Of Life” – greenbiz.com
“Ban Wildlife Markets To Avert Pandemics, Says UN Biodiversity… – theguardian.com
“Want To Stop The Next Pandemic? Protect Wildlife Habitats – TIME
“Biodiversity And Emerging Diseases” – NCBI

Okay, already! In the Philippines, we have right at the upper campus of UP Los Baños the headquarters of the Asean Biodiversity Center, ABC, with Theresa Mundita Lim, as Executive Director. Janvic Mateo writes on “Biodiversity Protection Needed To Prevent Future Pandemics” (26 April 2020, The Philippine Star[1]) and says, “Lim said the current pandemic highlights the need to mainstream efforts to protect biodiversity to prevent future spread of illnesses.”

Ms Lim was saying, “Exposure to wildlife in general can result in transmission of illnesses.” The danger is real. She said:

There’s more exposure now to the wilderness areas, between people and wildlife. It’s not just the markets, not just the trade, but the encroaching of what used to be wildlife habitats, decreasing habitat areas.

So! We humans continue to disrespect Mother Nature! What you do comes back to you. One of the forms this disrespect comes back to us is pandemics.

Ms Lim was saying, “(We have) to protect biodiversity.”
The question is: How do we do that?

If you look at the above image, from The Conversation[2], the answer is:

You: “We go back to the forest!”
Me: “We go back to the farms!”

We have millions of hectares more farms than forests.

Martine Maron of the University of Queensland throws a very intriguing question in the title of her article, which also contains its own answer, and which is inspiring (source cited above):

“Food Vs Fauna: Can We Have Our Biodiversity And Eat, Too?”

Ms Martine says:

So, we have to feed an extra 2.5 billion people by 2050. For those of us interested in the future of biodiversity on this planet, this poses an uncomfortable challenge…

She is encouraging “land sharing” – using “wildlife-friendly” farming.

I am extremely glad Ms Martine does not say, “Farm the mountains!”

Now, look at the above image again. Because we prefer to cultivate certain crops, there is not much diversity in the farms, is there? There is not much diversity in the plant life on the slopes of that mountain either, is there?

So, where do we start the new consciousness on biodiversity?

The obvious answer is: The mountains.
The immediately visible and more intelligent answer is: The farms.

What do I mean by biodiversity on the farms?
Multiple cropping.
Intercropping.
Three-Sister planting.
Trap cropping.
Agroforestry.

If we leave no bare patch of ground unplanted, we will see biodiversity like we have never seen before – and the wildlife will thank us, including the flowers and the bees!@517

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[1] https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2020/04/26/2009890/biodiversity-protection-needed-prevent-future-pandemics

[2] https://theconversation.com/food-vs-fauna-can-we-have-our-biodiversity-and-eat-too-3178

SOLVE As A Way Of Speech & Blogging As A Way Of Write

Searca Tuesday, 28 April 2020, 10:00 AM, embarks on a Southeast Asian voyage of discovering and/or uncovering pieces & sets of knowledge on food security given the global coronavirus outbreak. 

It is a webinar series to “highlight concrete actions in agriculture and rural development in Southeast Asia.” The series to be launched is called “Searca Online Learning & Virtual Engagement,” acronym SOLVE, which is Searca’s “effort to break boundaries, both physical and conceptual, to strategically disseminate just-in-time solutions.” It is ambitious, but the times call for it.

Searca Director Glenn B Gregorio says of it:

The new normal brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic has firmed up Searca’s resolve to embark on new modalities and use technology-mediated platforms of interactions to effectively deliver context-relevant and valuable services to its stakeholders, including farmers and the public.

SOLVE is virtual but the learnings are real. Mr Gregorio said:

SOLVE particularly highlights specific concrete and practical actions being implemented on the ground as a way to disseminate and promote these to the wider sector possible.

Why is Searca doing this? Mr Gregorio said:

Ultimately, as a leading enabler and champion of excellence in ARD in Southeast Asia, SEARCA now further consolidates its efforts in making sure that all the necessary actions will indeed directly reach and would significantly benefit the Farmers and Farming Families.

With that, I must say that Searca is suddenly the development-consciousSoutheast Asian institution of science that it has never been in its 54 years of existence, founded in 1966, setting up headquarters at the campus of UP Los Baños.

The public is invited to participate via Zoom and Facebook. Again, let me note that Searca is a pioneer in the use of social media to address its clientele, which is Southeast Asia-wide.

Food security for the people is insurance against hunger and malnutrition via production and purchase, an interplay of export and import.

There are 3 speakers for 28 April 2020: Secretary of Agriculture William Dar; Searca Director Glenn B Gregorio, and General Manager of Farmer’s Factory Gerry Hidalgo. The major theme is “Food & Nutrition Security” and “Eco-Health/One-Health Applications to ARD.” The sponsoring partners for the day are Searca, the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, and Farmer’s Factory.

At the same time, Searca is keen to partner with any institution or individual who sees the potential in SOLVE and may like to, say, serve as a resource speaker. That is why I wrote this essay.

I am now going to offer myself as a webinar speaker-demonstrator in the field of blogging for development. Certainly, blogging can offer just-in-time solutions. Live, I will demonstrate digitally how people can think creatively and write and blog by themselves.

I am 79; my thousands of blog posts are digital proofs that neither age nor media is a hindrance to communication.

If time is short, we continue the tutorials online afterwards, first 10 clients free, email to email. Writers should be free, and blogging is a way to go!@517

Nicky Perlas – Health Or Wealth Is A Cruel Choice!

We need a Balance, and the continuing Luzon Lockdown is cruelty against Reason.

Canada One says of its own image (above)[1]:

Covid-19: Saving Lives vs Saving the Economy:
Getting This Wrong Could Be Devastating.

Health vs Wealth. I say Canada One is either short-sighted or cross-eyed.

Canada One fails to realize a 3^rd choice –
the one it itself constructed for all to see!

Looking at the balance it built, Canada One sees only an apocalyptic vision.

Wake up, Canada One!
You do not know you constructed a balance – literally!
Meaning? Both sides equal.
Which means we can choose both.
If we are using our head!

Which is exactly what Filipino genius Nicky Perlas sees that I see in his  
Open Letter To Rodrigo R Duterte, President, Republic Of The Philippines.

And so on one side, Nicky tells President Rodrigo Roa Duterte:

Mr President: Given the incomplete and sketchy scientific and global information available to you then, you understandably had no real choice but to lock down the entire country in an attempt to control Covid-19 infections and deaths. Your quick and decisive action gave the nation some breathing space in the face of the unknown.

That was one month ago; Nicky’s letter is dated 18 April 2020.

As you acknowledged from your recent addresses to the nation, you are now caught in the middle of a cruel choice: Saving lives or saving the economy?

Not a balanced proposition, I say.

What if… a second wave will hit the nation, a side-effect of the lockdown and flattening the curve approach? We are already beginning to witness this in China.

Second wave – getting this wrong could be devastating!

Meanwhile, Mr President, our own Department of Health, DoH, is IV-feeding media into frenzy!

The figures from DoH, which then (get) press coverage, overstate the number of infections… (including test results with) large numbers of false positives. (Those) inaccurate test results create unnecessary panic and hysteria among our citizens.

I say, there are 2 culprits in there: DoH and Media. The DoH hyper-ventilates and, without counterchecking with experts, the Media shows its toothy grin as it disseminates those inaccurate numbers. Mr President, “In fact, in your televised Cabinet Meeting on April 9, the Secretary of (Health) acknowledged the declining figures of infection.” Facts.

The declining rate of new cases and low death rates… indicate that the virus behind Covid-19 is not a virulent as feared. At most, it is a stronger version of the flu as scientists from all over the world are discovering. 

Well, Mr President, we all fear it because the media wants us to. There’s media agenda.

The Philippines has suffered more deaths from pneumonia and flu (than) from Covid-19 for the same (length) of time. Yet we never locked down our society every time there was pneumonia or flu epidemic… Continued lockdown and social distancing will predispose the country to another epidemic wave of the Covid-19.

Wake up, Mr President!
We have constructed a bad balance.
The continuing lockdown is healthy
neither for our people nor economy!@517

Let’s Redefine Beauty. But I Would Not Like To Redefine Patriotism

First, there is a hugely important word not found in Secretary of Agriculture William Dar/Manong Willie’s “The New Thinking For Agriculture” and its accompanying “Eight Paradigms,” but it is there: Patriotism. (Patriotism image from CooINSmart[1]) About it, beloved American novelist & wit Mark Twain says of it:

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time
and your government when it deserves it.

I say patriotic is Manong Willie’s New Thinking, his all-out support for his country in the wide field of Agriculture; and being an obedient cabinet member to President Du30.

Senator Bong Go has proposed a nationwide program called “Balik Probinsya[2]” (Living & Loving in the Villages, my free translation). Manong Willie publicly supports it.

The are no details about Balik Probinsya, but surfing I found that in the time of Noynoy Aquino, already there was a “Balik-Probinsya Program” (BPP) [3].” For the BPP, the DA is the first in the list of government institutions coming up with the “National Convergence Initiative For Sustainable Rural Development.” The Initiative, says the proposed Executive Order, EO, “is a strategic development approach that can contribute to sustainable rural development through complementation of efforts with the local government units (LGUs) and other stakeholders.” For the LGUs, the EO says: “The convergence approach is a major strategy for meeting the informal settler’s shelter requirements while at the same time addressing livelihood, other household, and community needs.”

I say that if you are a patriot in the true sense of the word:

You are beautiful.

I will also say that in patriotism, there is the beauty of intentions.

The Covid-19 Lockdown made us all forget about physical “beauty” brought about by penciled eyebrows, rose-colored cheeks, red & lustrous lips, padded eyelashes, and beauty-salon hair and makeup. Thank God!

Above, Kulin Fernandez, once-upon-a-time our next-door apartment dweller, does not mention her source of the image, but I found it: Energising Souls[4]. Here is more from there:

Let’s Redefine Beauty
(27 April 2019)

Women, Girls, Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Friends, Aunties,
Calling all females…………
Let’s redefine beauty.
It’s not the outward appearance.
It’s what’s on the inside that makes you beautiful.
It’s your very essence that is beautiful.
When your heart & soul shines, that’s where your real beauty radiates from.

I accept all that. But I want more of Beauty!
Like:

Beauty of ideas. The 2^nd month into his headship of the Department of Agriculture, Manong Willie launched “Kadiwa ni Ani at Kita” at the Food & Development Center in Taguig City[5]. Today, Kadiwa is welcome here and sought there, especially in the cities. It is borrowed; it is beautiful.

Beauty of Intentions – My intention as a writer for the new PH Agriculture is? Cultivate the beauty of people and places in the countryside. So, after everything I have said and done in the last 13 years, I am not perfect. I accept that. I accept what Amy Bloom says of it:

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed.
And you are beautiful.@517

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[1] https://www.coolnsmart.com/patriotism_quotes/?cfilter=images

[2] https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1100982

[3] http://nci.da.gov.ph/images/DownloadableFiles/3_ProgsandProjs/3.4_BPP/3.4 BPP.pdf

[4] https://energisingsouls.com.au/2019/04/27/lets-redefine-beauty/

[5] https://www.facebook.com/secretarywilliamdar/posts/125159192184147

Lockdown Thinking Of Agriculture 4.0, My Journalism 4.0 And Ani & Kita

You are looking at my PC setup in my bedroom/workroom somewhere in Luzon in this lockdown. With it, I can look out & into so many universes even as I am ensconced in my little room and not allowed to go out. 

Did I say I’m enjoying being held up in a room? With my Core i7 14-inch Lenovo laptop and an external 20-inch ViewSonic monitor, yes. When I was being taught, initially, digital writing during the Niños Inocentes Day in 1985, with WordStar 1, I was only thinking it made my writing & editing sessions so much easier, but it was still work. I never thought I would enjoy working in the digital world – in a few weeks, work became play.

You may know that I am already 79, thank God. Question: How can a senior citizen enjoy writing nonfiction, even if there is payment? Isn’t it a burden on the eyes and memory? Answer: On the eyes, yes. On the memory, yes! But that is why you can adjust the text size and clarity in Windows 10. And no, you don’t have to memorize grammatical rules or names etcetera – you can always surf the Web.

So, here I am enjoying myself blogging away! (Note the clock.) My latest blog is called Journalism 4.0 – deliberately, I took the name after Agriculture 4.0, of which everyone says is “The Future Of Farming Technology.” That is to say, the emphasis is on technology. Of it, Oliver Wyman says[1]:

The World Government Summit launched a report called Agriculture 4.0 – The Future Of Farming Technology, in collaboration with Oliver Wyman for the 2018 edition of the international event. The report addresses the four main developments placing pressure on agriculture to meeting the demands of the future: Demographics, Scarcity of natural resources, Climate change, and Food waste.

So, Agriculture 4.0 is dedicated to:
(1) satisfying the world’s billions of human mouths,
(2) conserving natural resources,
(3) adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change, and
(4) avoiding food waste.

High goals for the World Government Summit!
But not high enough.

Given all that, Agriculture 4.0 does not give equal attention to the poverty of the world’s billions of people. Even if all the technologies generated under Agriculture 4.0 fit the criteria of appropriate technology articulated by Ernest F Schumacher in the early 1960s, poverty is not in the agenda. I must say:

Agriculture 4.0 is poor!
In the Philippines, Ani & Kita should make it rich!

How? Secretary of Agriculture William Dar/Manong Willie’s Masaganang Ani at Mataas na Kita (bounteous harvest & bountiful income, my translation) will make it a dream come true.

I remember what I now call the UN 4.0, which is it’s strategy for Sustainable Development: technical feasibility, economic viability, environmental soundness, and social acceptability.

No matter how advanced your farming technology is, how sophisticated, how ingenious and how accurate, if it is not acceptable by the poor, it is not acceptable.

And yes, Journalism 4.0, we must not forget the trees!@517

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[1] https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2018/feb/agriculture-4-0--the-future-of-farming-technology.html

Information Vs Knowledge Vs Wisdom – Science & The Application Of It

With “The New Thinking For Agriculture” for PH Agriculture under Secretary of Agriculture William Dar/Manong Willie, along with “The 8 Paradigms” that comprise it, and being a BSA graduate, you already know my cup of tea. It intrigues me that Bruce Tolentino, a friend of Agriculture, UP Economics, is sharing on Facebook Richard Feynman’s Information Knowledge thesis (above).(wisdom image from Ubiquity University[1])

As it happens, my ultimate measure of knowledge is its usefulness to society – against the 4 elements of sustainability proclaimed by FAO: technical feasibility, economic viability, environmental soundness, and social acceptability. Then, knowledge must be transformed into wisdom!

The ways I see them:

Information is any piece of report of what has or have been observed.

Knowledge is bits & pieces of information that have been related together to make one sense or another. Sorry, but what is depicted in Mr Feynman’s expression via text, lines and balloons as “knowledge” is too complicated to be explained by ordinary mortals – only a supercomputer can interpret the knowledge contained therein!

Now, what is the application of Feynman’s view of knowledge? Not pieces or sets of knowledge that may be expressed as a technology or a system.

Beyond Technology or System, what can you construct out of Knowledge? Knowledge sets that can be elevated into Wisdom. This can happen of course backwards – you arrive at the Wisdom first, by insight, and then find an explanation by way of known knowledge bits & pieces. The whole came before the parts!

How do I apply such thinking to the New PH Agriculture that is in the mind of Manong Willie?

Information vs Knowledge – If you want to criticize the “New Thinking For Agriculture,” you have to understand first how those 8 paradigms make up the whole PH Agriculture, then you may say the whole set still lacks one or two things.

I, as a creative writer, am now going to employ Mr Feynman’s Information vs Knowledge construct for others to understand what is creative writing:

(1)   I start with bits & pieces of Information. I collect them via research.

(2)   Then I construct new or improved knowledge from those bits & pieces of information I have gathered, or thought.

(3)   My handling of knowledge sets may not be as sophisticated as Mr Feynman illustrates it, but I certainly hope that the knowledge constructed is usable enough in society.

Applying now: Is land ownership wisdom? It certainly is composed of sets of knowledge: piece of land, necessity for working it with tools & equipment etc.

Question: How do you elevate land ownership into wisdom, so that it may serve a bigger whole than simply the landowner? 

Answer: You elevate it by destroying it – or, rather, not insisting on it but insisting on consolidating the function of each piece of land – into an organizational, operational whole, where say 100 hectares of 200 owners are managed and operated by a single group that represents the interests of the land owners. Land ownership is private good; land consolidation is social good.@517

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[1] https://www.facebook.com/WisdomUniversity/

Liberating PH Farmers – From What?

With UP Manila communicator Benito, former PH Secretary of Agriculture Montemayor dreams of liberating Filipino farmers – from what?

Facebook sharing of Mr Montemayor: “A Country For Farmers[1].” The link is to the Inquirer.net essay by Joberson Benito dated 25 February 2020 about what Mr Benito knows as the life of the Filipino farmer especially with the advent of the Rice Tariffication Law, RTL. (According to the note attached to his essay, Mr Benito graduated with Organizational Communication from the University of the Philippines Manila.)

So, what does Mr Benito communicate about the RTL?
Very little. Because he did not do proper research!

This is a UP alumnus speaking, the one and only recipient of the UP System’s award, “Outstanding Alumnus for Creative Writing” awarded 2011 by the UP Los Baños Alumni Association. Singular honor; there is no similar or related honor in the entire UP System.

Mr Benito’s essay of 547 words is all prejudice against the RTL but no details. And:
His essay of 547 words is all prejudice against farmers but no details either!

Above, my superimposed image is from my photo collection, taken somewhere in La Union about 7 years ago.

Question: Is that a farmer you are looking at or not?
Answer: He is.

So! The Filipino has changed over the years!
But he has not changed over the years.
And neither Mr Montemayor nor Mr Benito seem to be aware of either.

What has not changed in the life of the Filipino farmer is his poverty. But Mr Benito does not mention that; he is preoccupied with the RTL that he did not study thoroughly. He says of it:

Filipinos love instant noodles, instant coffee, instant coconut milk. We want to achieve the end goal fast. The rice tarriffication law is the Philippines’ version of an instant fix to lower rice prices, an easy way to address the food crisis. But it is like admitting there is nothing to be done to improve our farmers’ productivity and lower rice prices unless we resort to importing cheaper rice.

Note that he misspells tariffication – everyone does! If Mr Benito googled about the RTL, he would not have made that spelling mistake.

In any case, above Mr Benito says the RTL is “to lower rice prices.” No! That is not the purpose of the RTL. Neither is it to improve “farmers’ productivity.” I’m not telling you – you have to do your own research. Or, you read my essay, “PH Agriculture: Rice Tariffication Is A Must, Farm-Based Exports Are More Must![2].”

All in all, what I want to say is that what Mr Benito has written reflects only his diligence and not the quality of education he got from UP Manila, where one of my daughters also graduated from, Occupational Therapy. What Mr Benito needs right now to improve his own occupational therapy – exercise the fingers and add more food for thought for the mind for his body to become healthier as an organizational communicator. This is a grandfatherly advice; I am 79 and he is 26.@517

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[1] https://opinion.inquirer.net/127585/a-country-for-farmers?fbclid=IwAR3nr8Ni9pcVgXXLCIfJAGJHKwoV0cpZFsOVOrZP_Px31MODr5qjYmm-_9s

[2] https://frankhtheblogfather.blogspot.com/2019/11/ph-agriculture-rice-tariffication-is_21.html

Agriculture – Here Is One Little-Big Proof That Science Proves Faith Is Right!

I am an Agriculture graduate, BSA major in Ag Education, UP Los Baños, and I so believe that Agriculture remains to be The Major Force that will bring out millions of Filipinos out of Poverty into Plenty – if we believe in the Christian God and follow His commandments. 

So: Faith First!

Why do I believe that? Because of a biblical promise; it goes back to the times of Jesus:

1 John 3:17 New Revised Standard Version, NRSV

How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?

1 John 3:17 New International Version, NIV

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?

Actually it is not a commandment – it is a question of faith! That is why I say, “I believe.” The commandments of God are not going to be executed by God – they are going to be executed by us, or not.

2020. It just happens that I am writing this Wednesday, 22 April, the very 1^st Earth Day in 1970, 50 years ago. Encyclopaedia Britannica says this “helped spark the environmental movement and quickly grew into an international event.”

That’s half a century. Now, why is our Earth even worse than when it was 22 April 1970? Because Man has not changed a bit!

So, here is the short story of Aaron Avner depicted above, all 217 words of it, excluding the date 25 September 2015:

There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.

“Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”

So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all...
-Call it power of collectivity...
-Call it a principle of success...
-Call it a law of life.
The fact is, none of us truly wins, until we all win!!

Question: “Why should I be my brother’s keeper!?” Answer: As the little story of Mr Avner shows, “To find true happiness, we must help others.”@517

Fragmented As It Is, The Philippines Is Worth Writing For!

Facebook sharing of Ed Quiblatin: 

Time to shift from “egosystems to ecosystems” (per article).

Thanks, Ed, I needed that! Paraphrasing Ninoy Aquino, I say, “The Philippines is worth writing for!”

Actually, it has been so for me since at least the beginning of 2007, a little more than 13 years ago, when I started blogging for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, ICRISAT, based in India, as an international consulting writer for ICRISAT, when now-Secretary of Agriculture William Dar/Manong Willie was Director General. I was writing for ICRISAT countries – but I made sure that I was also writing for the Philippines, directly or indirectly mentioning my country.

My perspective has always been bigger than my topic. Yes, once in a little, I do mention my ability/ies relevant to the topics – from “egosystems to ecosystems” per article.

That is how I approach this one: “Eight Emerging Lessons: From Coronavirus to Climate Action[1]” by Otto Scharmer of Medium.com, writing 17 March 2020. Now that lockdowns have been imposed in most of the world, Mr Scharmer has been moved to think from small to Big. Here are his Little/Big Thoughts on the subject of the “New World Order” (my term):

1.  The coronavirus disruption is a harbinger of things to come.

2.  Your behavior changes the system.

3.  Two levers: timely government response and data-based citizen awareness.

4.  We are faced with a choice.

5.  The decline of Trump and far right populists.

6.  The rise of data-driven awareness-based collective action.

7.  The conversation we need to have now: reimagining our civilization.

8.  School for transformation: activating generative social fields.

“The coronavirus disruption is a harbinger of things to come.” Yes, even if we do not feel it or see it now, the world has been changed forever, even right in your neighborhood. You will see it, or feel it, or sense it, after all this is over. Like it or not.

Your behavior changes the system. In an immediate manner during a lockdown. A whole world in a lockdown is global chaos! No matter how you look at it.

Two levers: timely government response and data-based citizen awareness. No government anticipated this, and no citizenry knew exactly how to behave. Yes, we citizens are now in a state of awareness and immobility against our liking.

We are faced with a choice. Always.

The decline of Trump and far right populists. I don’t think so. I believe Donald John Trump is the best modern American President so far! That is an opinion coming from a Manila observer.

The rise of data-driven awareness-based collective action. Every numbers-crazy! expert of something thinks like that: Numbers will tell you what to do! No, they don’t – your thinking does, numbers or no numbers.

The conversation we need to have now: reimagining our civilization. Ah, I rather agree with this. The world has been pushed to the Brink – let us push it to the Better!

School for transformation: activating generative social fields. Me: Schools transformed and the media humbled – Absolutely!@517

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[1] https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/eight-emerging-lessons-from-coronavirus-to-climate-action-683c39c10e8b