2023 was the hottest year on record. This year a record 15 national heat records have been broken so far. But our response to the climate crisis still falls far short of the scale of the challenge.
How can we approach climate policy differently? How can we prevent short-term thinking and political expediency from driving critical decision making?
This consultation builds on the conclusions from Greener Vision: The Art of Seeing which argues that we won’t solve our most difficult problems with the same thinking that created them in the first place. We need to embrace a more open and self-reflective approach, which starts with an honest appraisal of how we look at the problem.
We need more holistic thinking and an approach that seeks to create unity rather than division. Policy should be informed by five key ‘Pillars of Unity’:
- We should strive to ‘see the whole picture’.
- Better ‘integration of thoughts and feelings’ would improve decision making.
- We must respect the ‘unity of the biosphere’ and be at one with nature.
- We should ‘heal the whole system’ by tackling root causes of climate change.
- We need to become citizens of ‘One World’.
