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Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We need
Rob Hopkins
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“ bighearted idea that just might make unnecessary the world”—The GuardianThe founder of the outside Transition Towns movement asks why dependable originative , cocksure thought is in downslope , asserts that it ’s more important now than ever , and suggests manner our communities can revive and tame it . In these time of mystifying division and deeper despair , if there is a consensus about anything in the world , it is that the future is going to be awful . There is an epidemic of loneliness , an epidemic of anxiousness , a mental health crisis of Brobdingnagian proportions , especially among young citizenry . There ’s a rise in extremist movement and governments . Catastrophic climate change . Biodiversity loss . nutrient insecurity . The fracturing of ecosystem and community of interests beyond , it seems , mend . The future — to say nothing of the present — looks grim .
But as Transition social movement cofounder Rob Hopkins recount us , there is plenty of grounds that thing can change , and cultures can change , rapidly , dramatically , and unexpectedly — for the better . He has seen it materialize around the world and in his own Ithiel Town of Totnes , England , where the community is becoming its own housing developer , energy party , endeavour incubator , and local food connection — with cascade down benefit to the biotic community that poke out far beyond the projects themselves .
Wedohave the potentiality to effect striking change , Hopkins reason , but we ’re go wrong because we ’ve largely permit our most critical tool to languish : human resource . As defined by social crusader John Dewey , imagination isthe power to look at things as if they could be otherwise . The ability , that is , to askWhat if?And if there was ever a time when we needed that power , it is now .
Imagination is central to empathy , to creating better living , to envisioning and then enacting a prescribed future . Yet mental imagery is also provably in decline at precisely the minute when we need it most . In this passionate exploration , Hopkins asks why imagery is in downslope , and what we must do to revive and reclaim it . Once we do , there is no end to what we might accomplish .
From What Is to What Ifis a call to military action to reclaim and loose our collective imaginativeness , told through the stories of individuals and communities around the world who are doing it now , as we speak , and witnessing often rapid and striking modification for the better .
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