- Last 7 days
-
www.asc.upenn.edu www.asc.upenn.edu
-
for - paper - Experimental evidence for tipping points in social convention - Centola et al., 2018
-
-
www.nature.com www.nature.com
-
for - social tipping points - climate action - social tipping interventions - STI
paper details - title: From niches to norms: the promise of social tipping interventions to scale climate action - authors: Pizziol, Veronica; Tavoni, Alessandro - publisher: Nature - date: 2024
-
- Aug 2024
-
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
-
we know from previous large transitions in history that you never change the world by having everyone on board. You change the world by having large enough minorities that can tip quite inert majority to move in the right direction
for - social tipping points - quote - Johan Rockstrom
quote - social tipping points - Johan Rockstrom - (see below) - We know from previous large transitions in history that - You never change the world by having everyone on board.. - You change the world by having large enough minorities<br /> - that can tip quite inert majority to move in the right direction. - When you look at the world of sustainability. - in many societies in the world, we are actually a double digit penetration - on sustainable solutions, - on people's awareness, - on willingness to even politically vote for green or, sustainable options. - So we're very close to that positive tipping point as well. - and that's another reason why it's not the moment to back down. - Now is the moment to just increase momentum.
-
-
www.systemiq.earth www.systemiq.earth
-
for - social tipping points - breakthrough effect - cascading tipping points - systemiq - Bezos Earth Fund -University of Exeter - social tipping points
report details - title - The Breakthrough Effect - How to trigger a cascade of tipping points to accelerate the net zero transition - authors - Mark Meldrum - Lloyd Pinnell - Katy Brennan - Mattia Romani - Simon Sharpe - Tim Lenton - date - january 2023 - publisher -
-
-
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
-
the people who has the power need to act faster
for - climate crisis - who has the power? - poverty mentality - leverage points - social tipping points - climate crisis - feelings of helplessness
climate crisis - who has the power? - There is still this assumption that policy-makers are the ones who have the power - There isn't yet a recognition of whether there is power within individuals sufficient to make a real difference. - Trying and failing, we grow weary of believing that we do have power to collectively effect the scale of change required - Unless we demonstrate leverage points within individuals that can lead to effective scale of collective action, we cannot jumpstart an effective movement - poverty mentality can keep us stuck
-
- Jul 2024
-
prlicari.medium.com prlicari.medium.com
-
for - social tipping points - Centola 25% threshold - critique - from - Medium - Social tipping points are probably overrated
article details - title - Overselling the Science of Social Tipping Points - author - Peter Licari, PhD - date - 11 Jjune, 2018 - publication - Medium - https://prlicari.medium.com/overselling-the-science-of-social-tipping-points-16095145d32
from - Medium - Social tipping points are probably overrated - https://hyp.is/yMaQND7WEe-Q2zsiwzB5wA/jamesozden.substack.com/p/social-tipping-points-are-probably
-
-
jamesozden.substack.com jamesozden.substack.com
-
for - social tipping points - Centola 25% threshold - critique - to - Medium - Overselling the Science of Tipping Points
comment - The author raises valid critique of Centola's 25% threshold. - His main critique concerns the experiment not representing real world complex scenarios and is summarized in 3 points: - The experimental method used is an oversimplification of the complexity of real world complex issues such as climate change denial and meat eating, which are deeply ingrained beliefs in many cases. - No such attachment exists in the experimental setup - In the experiment, the subjects were incentified. In complex real world issues, there is often no incentive structure - Real life isn't all 1-1 interactions
to - Medium - Overselling the Science of Tipping Points - https://hyp.is/Aocs0D7WEe-knadNGOYVog/prlicari.medium.com/overselling-the-science-of-social-tipping-points-16095145d32
-
- Jun 2024
-
www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
-
when will the critical mass threshold be passed for the chain reaction to be sustained by the virtuous circle of people living more meaningful lives, cooperating and being in solidarity and helping to make the planet healthier?
for - question - social tipping points - anthropology of
question - social. tipping point - When will the critical mass threshold be passed - for the chain reaction to be sustained - by the virtuous circle of people - living more meaningful lives, - cooperating and being in solidarity and - helping to make the planet healthier?
-
- Apr 2024
-
leemor.medium.com leemor.medium.com
-
each bird interacts only with its seven closest neighbors.
adjacency - between - starling murmuration discovery of seven closest neighbors - cosmolocal impacts - cascading social tipping points - SIMPOL / SIMACT - adjacency statement - Could this finding of starling murmuration behavior also apply to collective human behavior, especially social tipping points?
-
- Jan 2024
-
news.rpi.edu news.rpi.edu
-
Read Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas by Gabrielle DeMarco
found via: https://hypothes.is/a/kMVt4rC4Ee6E5bdC29_e_g
-
-
www.repubblica.it www.repubblica.it
-
We need to trigger exponential change across sectors and geographies by phasing out fossil fuels while taking advantage of positive social and economic tipping points.
-
for: quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - positive tipping points, quote - social tipping points, social tipping points, stop, positive tipping points
-
quote: Johan Rockstrom
- We need to trigger exponential change across sectors and geographies by phasing out fossil fuels while taking advantage of positive social and economic tipping points.
-
-
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
you don't start a feminist revolution by arguing with your dad. (Marjorie laughs) He might be the one who needs to change, but that doesn't mean that you start there. 00:22:55 You start by talking to each other. We need to come together. We need to have solidarity.
-
for: system change - where to start
-
paraphrase
- You don't start a feminist revolution by arguing with your dad. He might be the one who needs to change, but that doesn't mean that you start there.
- You start by talking to each other. We need to come together. We need to have solidarity.
- We need to have a common narrative and analysis and understanding of what's happening.
- And I think a common understanding of pathways of change and we need that core nucleus of people who really are working for system change.
- I think that's where we start. And hopefully, the narrative and the clarity that we can bring will be compelling enough that we will win more hearts and minds
-
comment
- cascading social tipping points
-
-
-
-
-
for: COP28 talk - later is too late, Global tipping points report, question - are there maps of feedbacks of positive tipping points?, My Climate Risk, ICICLE, positive tipping points, social tipping points
-
NOTE
- This video is not yet available on YouTube so couldn't not be docdropped for annotation. So all annotations are done here referred to timestamp
-
SUMMARY
-
This video has not been uploaded on youtube yet so there is no transcription and I am manually annotating on this page.
-
Positive tipping points
- not as well studied as negative tipping points
- cost parity is the most obvious but there are other factors relating to
- politics
- psychology
- We are in a path dependency so we need disruptive change
-
-
SPEAKER PANEL
- Pierre Fredlingstein, Uni of Exeter - Global carbon budget report
- Rosalyn Conforth, Uni of Reading - Adaptation Gap report
- Tim Lenton, Uni of Exeter - Global Tipping Report
-
Global Carbon Budget report summary
-
0:19:47: Graph of largest emitters
- graph
- comment
- wow! We are all essentially dependent on China! How do citizens around the world influence China? I suppose if ANY of these major emitters don't radically reduce, we won't stay under 1.5 Deg C, but China is the biggest one.
-
00:20:51: Land Use Emissions
-
three countries represent 55% of all land use emissions - Brazil - DRC - Indonesia
-
00:21:55: CDR
- forests: 1.9 Gt / 5% of annual Fossil Fuel CO2 emissions
- technological CDR: 0.000025% of annual Fossil Fuel CO2 emissions
-
00:23:00: Remaining Carbon Budget
- 1.5 Deg C: 275 Gt CO2
- 1.7 Deg C. 625 Gt CO2
- 2.0 Deg C. 1150 Gt CO2
-
Advancing an Inclusive Process for Adaptation Planning and Action
-
adaptation is underfinanced. The gap is:
- 194 billion / year
- 366 billion / year by 2030
- climate change increases transboundary issues
- need transboundary agreements but these are absent
- conflicts and migration are a result of such transboundary climate impacts
- people are increasing climate impacts to try to survive due to existing climate impacts
-00:29:46: My Climate Risk Regional Hubs - Looking at climate risks from a local perspective. - @Nate, @SoNeC - 00:30:33 ""ICICLE** storyllines - need bottom-up approach (ICICLE - Integrated Climate Livelihood and and Environment storylines)
-
00:32:58: Global Tipping Points
-
00:33:46: Five of planetary systems can tip at the current 1.2 Deg C
- Greenland Ice Sheet
- West Antarctic
- Permafrost
- Coral Reefs - 500 million people
- Subpolar Gyre of North Atlantic - ice age in Europe
- goes in a decade - like British Columbia climate
-
00:35:39
- risks go up disproportionately with every 0.1 deg C of warming. There is no longer a business-as-usual option now. We CANNOT ACT INCREMENTALLY NOW.
-
00:36:00
- we calculate a need of a speed up of a factor of 7 to shut down greenhouse gas emissions and that is done through positive tipping points.
-00:37:00 - We have accelerating positive feedbacks and if we coordinate policy changes with consumer behavior change and business behavior change to reinforce these positive feedbacks, we can help accelerate change in the other sectors of the global economy responsible for all the other emissions
-
00:37:30
- in the report we walk you through the other sectors, where their tipping points are and how we have to act to trigger them. This is the only viable path out of our situation.
-
00:38:10
- Positive tipping points can also reinforce each other
- Question: Are there maps of the feedbacks of positive tipping points?
- Tim only discusses economic and technological positive tipping points and does not talk about social or societal
-
-
- Dec 2023
-
-
the French Revolution happened in Denmark
-
for: social tipping points - political, quote - french Revolution - Denmark
-
quote.
- the French Revolution happened in Denmark
-
-
well I'll start with two extremely optimistic points
-
for: answer to above question
-
answer : two answers
- first, the elite have the majority of
- wealth
- control of setting policies
- control of the media
- and they work really hard at controlling policy and media
- and the people
- hate the system
- generally hate them
- second, social tipping points occur. Something happened in over place, then it spreads to other places
- first, the elite have the majority of
-
-
-
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
-
-
for: social tipping point, STP, social tipping point - misapplication, social tipping points - 4 application errors
-
title: Social tipping points everywhere?—Patterns and risks of overuse
- author: Manjana Miikoreit
-
date: Nov 17, 2022
-
abstract
- The last few years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the concept of social tipping points (STPs),
- understood as nonlinear processes of transformative change in social systems.
- A growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship has been focusing in particular on social tipping related to climate change.
- In contrast with tipping point studies in the natural sciences–for example
- climate tipping points and
- ecological regime shifts–
- STPs are often conceptualized as desirable, offering potential solutions to pressing problems.
- Drawing on
- a well-established definition for tipping points, and
- a qualitative review of articles that explicitly treat social tipping points as potential solutions to climate change,
- this article identifies four deleterious patterns in the application of the STP concept in this recent wave of research on nonlinear social change:
- (i) premature labeling,
- (ii) not defining system boundaries and scales of analysis,
- (iii) not providing evidence for all characteristics of tipping processes, and
- (iv) not making use of existing social theories of change.
- Jointly, these patterns create a trend of overusing the concept.
- Recognizing and avoiding these patterns of “seeing the world through tipping point glasses” is important for
- the quality of scientific knowledge generated in this young field of inquiry and for
- future science-policy interactions related to climate change.
- Future research should seek to
- identify empirical evidence for STPs while remaining open to the possibility that
- many social change processes are not instances of tipping, or that
- certain systems might not be prone to nonlinear change.
- identify empirical evidence for STPs while remaining open to the possibility that
- The last few years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the concept of social tipping points (STPs),
-
-
-
global-tipping-points.org global-tipping-points.org
-
- for: planetary tipping points, global tipping points, positive tipping points, social tipping points
-
- Nov 2023
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
- for:social tipping points - within safe and just earth system boundaries
-
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
the curse of the climate crisis is that relative to covet and relative to the war moves in slower motion yes and that's a challenge
- comment
- if we have to wait until planetary tipping points are triggered, it will be too late. There has to be some other less catastrophic event that happens before that. Perhaps some combination of extreme weather events
- We need to trigger sufficiently large social tipping points before planetary tipping points are breached.
- comment
-
-
www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
-
- for: individual/collective gestalt, social tipping points
-
- Oct 2023
-
www.researchgate.net www.researchgate.net
-
caling Up Change: A Critical Reviewand Practical Guide to HarnessingSocial Norms for Climate Action
-
for: social tipping points - climate action, climate action - social tipping points, social norms - climate action, climate action - social norms, Damon Centola
-
title: Scaling Up Change: A Critical Review and Practical Guide to Harnessing Social Norms for Climate Action
- author:
- Sara M. Constantino
- Gregg Sparkman
- Gordon T. Kraft-Todd
- Cristina Bicchieri
- Damon Centola
- Bettina Shell-Duncan
- Sonja Vogt
- Elke U. Weber
- date: 2022
-
-
- Sep 2023
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
in a normal distribution, from over here you have the denialists and over here you have the environmental activists. But in between you have a lot of different types of people. And the majority are actually – we know this from opinion polls – they are very supportive of science. They're very supportive of and concerned about climate change. They want climate action. It's just that they live their normal lives, they have many preoccupations in life. 01:01:44 They have their children, their health, their school, their financing, their incomes. You know, many, many things to be worried about. But that's the question: how do we get this majority, the silent majority, to join us? And I don't think that the way to make them join us is to scare them. And I don't think the way to join is to fight with the denialists. I think the way to join... to make them join... is to show that this pathway can get a better life.
- for: leverage points, quote, quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - motivating the silent majority, climate change - priority, social tipping point
- quote
- In a normal distribution,
- from over here you have the denialists and
- over here you have the environmental activists.
- But in between you have a lot of different types of people.
- And the majority are actually
- we know this from opinion polls
- very supportive of science.
- They're very supportive of and concerned about climate change.
- They want climate action.
- It's just that they live their normal lives, they have many preoccupations in life.They have
- children,
- health,
- school,
- financing,
- incomes.
- You know, many, many things to be worried about.
- But that's the question:
- how do we get this majority, the silent majority, to join us?
- I don't think that the way to make them join us is to
- scare them and
- fight with the denialists.
- I think the way to make them join is to show that this pathway can get a better life.
- In a normal distribution,
- author: Johan Rockstrom
-
date: Sept., 2023
-
comment
- in other words
- the silent majority does not yet hold climate change activism to be sufficiently high on their list of priorities yet to warrant the necessary scale of action
-
- Aug 2023
-
-
hat kinds of individuals or teams or communities or systems cognitively are like the early canary in 00:39:47 the coal mine that you think are ready to transform or somebody who like might hear something about a system they're involved in and think actually yeah that sounds like my organization or self might be at this sort of transition 00:39:58 point
- for: early adopters, social tipping points, wide bridges
- question
- paraphrase
- who are the envisioned early adopters?
- there are numerous experiments going on everywhere
- new digital currencies
- new types of democratic systems
- new kinds of economic system proposals
- existing communities may have a few thousand members, but can be exponentially grown to hundreds of millions
- lots of small prototypes being built right now, we find the optimal ones and scale those
- who are the envisioned early adopters?
-
-
www.yesmagazine.org www.yesmagazine.org
-
KDNA is still on-air and continues its community-building tradition, as do many other independent and community radio stations nationwide. One unique example is WGXC in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. A program division of the nonprofit arts organization Wave Farm, WGXC is the only station in the country that dedicates significant airtime to radio as an artistic medium.
- for: communications, TPF, STP
- community radio
- KDNA
- WGXC
- community radio
- for: communications, TPF, STP
-
-
-
there is a critical tipping threshold of 35% of the population, for plausible distributions of risk/conformity preferences and expectations.
- for: social tipping point, STP, social norms, 35% threshold, 25% threshold, TPF
- question
- is this result contradicting Centola's 25% threshold finding?
-
Can policy promote beneficial norm change? The model suggests that effective interventions lower the tipping threshold.
- for: social tipping point, STP, TPF, social norms, complex contagion, lowering threshold
- policy changes can lower tipping point thresholds
-
Two factors consistently helped hasten beneficial change in our study.
- for: social tipping point, STP, tipping point, social norm, complex contagion
- study findings
- Two factors can help hasten beneficial change
- common understanding of the benefits from change due to:
- events that attract attention
- opinion polls that aggregate information
- finding an angle on an issue that appeals to a broad demographics
- perserverence
- leaders who persevere even at great cost
- common understanding of the benefits from change due to:
- Two factors can help hasten beneficial change
-
- for: social tipping point, STP, 25% threshold, 35% threshold, social norms, complex contagion, TPF
- title
- Social tipping points and forecasting norm change
- authors
- Nikos Nikiforakis
- Simon Siegenthaler James Andreoni
-
-
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
-
An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
- for: social-climatic tipping points, tipping points,
- title
- An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
-
-
theconversation.com theconversation.com
-
Climate change can drive social tipping points – for better or for worse
-
for: social tipping point, social tipping points, leverage point, leverage points, STP, 25% STP threshold
-
title
- Climate change can drive social tipping points – for better or for worse
- source
- date
- July 31, 2023
- author
- Sonia Graham
- reference
-
-
-
www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
-
-
for: social tipping points, STP, social tipping point, leverage point, Sirkku Juhola
-
title
- Social tipping points and adaptation limits in the context of systemic risk: Concepts, models and governance
- authors
- Sirkku Juhola
- Tatiana Filatova
- Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
- Reinhard Mechler
- Jurgen Scheffran
- Pia-Johanna Schweizer
- date
- Sept 21, 2022
-
abstract
- Physical tipping points have gained a lot of attention in global and climate change research to understand the conditions for system transitions when it comes to the atmosphere and the biosphere.
- Social tipping points have been framed as mechanisms in socio-environmental systems, where a small change in the underlying elements or behavior of actors triggers a large non-linear response in the social system.
- With climate change becoming more acute, it is important to know whether and how societies can adapt.
- While social tipping points related to climate change have been associated with positive or negative outcomes,
- overstepping adaptation limits has been linked to adverse outcomes where actors' values and objectives are strongly compromised.
- Currently, the evidence base is limited, and most of the discussion on social tipping points in climate change adaptation and risk research is conceptual or anecdotal.
- This paper brings together three strands of literature -
- social tipping points,
- climate adaptation limits and
- systemic risks,
- which so far have been separate.
- Furthermore, we discuss
- methods and
- models
- used to illustrate the dynamics of
- social and
- adaptation tipping points
- in the context of cascading risks at different scales beyond adaptation limits.
- We end with suggesting that further evidence is needed to identify tipping points in social systems,
- which is crucial for developing appropriate governance approaches.
-
reference
-
-
-
www.rifs-potsdam.de www.rifs-potsdam.de
-
-
for: social tipping point, social tipping points, leverage point, STP
-
reference
-
-
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
- for: social tipping point, social tipping points, STP, Tim Lenton, positive tipping points
-
- Apr 2023
- Oct 2022
-
global-tipping-points.org global-tipping-points.org
-
We have left it too late to tackle climate change incrementally. It now requires transformational change, and a dramatic acceleration of progress.
!- slogan : from climate change to system change
-
- Jul 2022
-
bafybeiac2nvojjb56tfpqsi44jhpartgxychh5djt4g4l4m4yo263plqau.ipfs.dweb.link bafybeiac2nvojjb56tfpqsi44jhpartgxychh5djt4g4l4m4yo263plqau.ipfs.dweb.link
-
Though we do not pursue this point here, it is logical to considerthat poor people will be found to experience a greater psychological pressure to identify with theirpersonware as this reduces the overwhelming cognitive load they are subject to.) The task is then onlyto take care that the personware remains consistent with the social roles available—and to steer clearof anything that reminds one of what has thus been lost
!- insight : poor identify with their personware * it just brings too much pain to know what one is denied
!- for : social tipping points * building wide bridges requires uniting diverse groups * understanding this self denial as a form of survival is important to understand the psychology of the oppressed
-
-
bylinetimes.com bylinetimes.com
-
Most academics continue to insist that it is still – barely – physically possible to limit warming to no more than 1.5°C. There are strong incentives to stay behind the invisible line that separates academia from wider social and political concerns, and so to not take a clear position about this.But we need to clearly acknowledge now that warming will exceed 1.5°C because we are losing vital reaction time by entertaining fantastic scenarios. The sooner we get real about our current situation and what it demands, the better.
Slight chance. We need nonlinear solutions and to find all the leverage points, social tipping points and idling capacity we can.:
Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050 https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fdoi%2F10.1073%2Fpnas.1900577117&group=world
An Introduction to PLAN E Grand Strategy for the Twenty-First-Century Era of Entangled Security and Hyperthreats https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usmcu.edu%2FOutreach%2FMarine-Corps-University-Press%2FExpeditions-with-MCUP-digital-journal%2FAn-Introduction-to-PLAN-E%2Ffbclid%2FIwAR3facE8l6Jk4Msc8C1nw8yWtwnzSCXVZGlO7JLkjqo8CWYTYAqAMTPkTO8%2F&group=world
Science Driven Societal Transformation https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2Fz9ZCjd2rqGY%2F&group=world
-
- Jun 2022
-
www.pnas.org www.pnas.org
-
Milkoreit et al. (23) propose a common definition of social tipping points (STPs) as points “within an SES at which a small quantitative change inevitably triggers a non-linear change in the social component of the SES, driven by self-reinforcing positive-feedback mechanisms, that inevitably and often irreversibly lead to a qualitatively different state of the social system.” There are historical examples of dynamic social spreading effects leading to a large self-amplification of small interventions: For example, the writings of one man, Martin Luther, injected through newly available printing technology into a public ready for such change, triggered the worldwide establishment of Protestant churches (24). An example in the field of climate policy is the introduction of tariffs, subsidies, and mandates to incentivize the growth of renewable energy production. This has led to a substantial system response in the form of mutually reinforcing market growth and exponential technology cost improvement (25, 26).In this paper, we examine a number of potential “social tipping elements” (STEs) for decarbonization (27, 28) that represent specific subdomains of the planetary social-economic system. Tipping of these subsystems could be triggered by “social tipping interventions” (STIs) that could contribute to rapid transition of the world system into a state of net zero anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
Accronyms:
STP - social tipping point STE - social tipping element STI - social tipping intervention
-
-
-
Why is it nearly invisible?
triggering social tipping points and mitigating collective illusion of climate change can make it visible rapidly.
-
Those communities that reject business as usual and cut their energy spending and all the materialist values that go with it, just might survive the long emergency and write a different ending to this story.
Unfortunately, our fates are collectively tied so we must collectively do this at scale to prevent tipping points. The motto of the Tipping Point Festival: Reach Social tipping points before planetary ones are breached.
-
- May 2022
-
www.usmcu.edu www.usmcu.edu
-
Similar to the way in which oil field executives were invited to Washington, DC, to help the United States mobilize during World War II, the hyper-response will adopt a similar approach to the task of building a new material security net. Leaders in the areas of renewable energy, zero emissions and ecological design, resource eagles, defense, and other relevant research and development fields, as well as tradespeople, will be invited to plan and deliver one of the largest engineering and human training and employment feats in world history. OP NewNet will jump-start humanity’s fight back against the hyperthreat.
to achieve large mobilization, a cascading social tipping point strategy can be fruitful, coupled with a conditional onboarding such as employed in the Simpol strategy: https://www.simpol.ph/ Conditional onboarding works because, like crowdfunding, nobody needs to make any resource commitment unless sufficient momentum is demonstrated.
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
- Jan 2022
-
www.monbiot.com www.monbiot.com
-
Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts.
Prioritizing the application of social tipping point theory.
-
- Nov 2021
-
www.annualreviews.org www.annualreviews.org
-
A final cluster gathers lenses that explore phenomena that are arguably more elastic and with the potential to both indirectly maintain and explicitly reject and reshape existing norms. Many of the topics addressed here can be appropriately characterized as bottom-up, with strong and highly diverse cultural foundations. Although they are influenced by global and regional social norms, the expert framing of institutions, and the constraints of physical infrastructure (from housing to transport networks), they are also domains of experimentation, new norms, and cultural change. Building on this potential for either resisting or catalyzing change, the caricature chosen here is one of avian metaphor and myth: the Ostrich and Phoenix cluster. Ostrich-like behavior—keeping heads comfortably hidden in the sand—is evident in different ways across the lenses of inequity (Section 5.1), high-carbon lifestyles (Section 5.2), and social imaginaries (Section 5.3), which make up this cluster. Yet, these lenses also point to the power of ideas, to how people can thrive beyond dominant norms, and to the possibility of rapid cultural change in societies—all forms of transformation reminiscent of the mythological phoenix born from the ashes of its predecessor. It is conceivable that this cluster could begin to redefine the boundaries of analysis that inform the Enabler cluster, which in turn has the potential to erode the legitimacy of the Davos cluster. The very early signs of such disruption are evident in some of the following sections and are subsequently elaborated upon in the latter part of the discussion.
The bottom-up nature of this cluster makes it the focus area for civil society movements, human inner transformation (HIT) approaches and cultural methodologies.
Changing the mindset or paradigm from which the system arises is the most powerful place to intervene in a system as Donella Meadows pointed out decades ago in her research on system leverage points: https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/
The sleeping giant of billions of potential change actors remains dormant. How do we awaken them and mobilize them. If we can do this, it can constitute the emergence of a third unidentified actor in system change.
The Stop Reset Go (SRG) initiative is focused on this thematic lens, bottom-up, rapid whole system change, with Deep Humanity (DH) as the open-source praxis to address the needed shift in worldview advocated by Meadows. One of the Deep Humanity programs is based on addressing the psychological deficits of the wealthy, and transforming them into heroes for the transition, by redirecting their WEALTH-to-WELLth.
There are a number of strategic demographics that can be targeted in methodical evidence-based ways. Each of these is a leverage point and can bring about social tipping points.
A number of 2021 reports characterize the outsized impact of the top 1% and top 10% of humanity. Unless their luxury, high ecological footprint behavior is reeled in, humanity won't stand a chance. Annotation of Oxfam report: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Foxfamilibrary.openrepository.com%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10546%2F621305%2Fbn-carbon-inequality-2030-051121-en.pdf&group=__world__ Annotation of Hot or Cool report: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotorcool.org%2Fhc-posts%2Frelease-governments-in-g20-countries-must-enable-1-5-aligned-lifestyles%2F&group=__world__
-
- Oct 2021
-
bafybeiery76ov25qa7hpadaiziuwhebaefhpxzzx6t6rchn7b37krzgroi.ipfs.dweb.link bafybeiery76ov25qa7hpadaiziuwhebaefhpxzzx6t6rchn7b37krzgroi.ipfs.dweb.link
-
Yet, these lenses also point to the power of ideas, to how people can thrive beyonddominant norms, and to the possibility of rapid cultural change in societies—all forms of trans-formation reminiscent of the mythological phoenix born from the ashes of its predecessor. It isconceivable that this cluster could begin to redefine the boundaries of analysis that inform the En-abler cluster, which in turn has the potential to erode the legitimacy of the Davos cluster. The veryearly signs of such disruption are evident in some of the following sections and are subsequentlyelaborated in the latter part of the discussion.
This passage pays homage to Donella Meadows, who identified the shift in mindset or paradigm that supports the system as the top leverage point. If we can shift this mindset in sufficient number of people, it can shift the thinking of the Enabler Cluster identified in the paper. A social tipping point strategy can be adopted to help this to happen quickly. This strategy is being developed by Stop Reset Go and other civil society actors.
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
- Dec 2020
-
oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com
-
such measures may lead to a broader 'social tipping point'
Auch hier wird auf das Modell der Social tipping points zurückgegriffen.
-