Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: a political ecology of change

You can't change a destructive global paradigm by nibbling at its edges; you have to announce its replacement. Doing so will make possible new alliances and new opportunities to seize the initiative.

The emergence of a new political center of gravity causes shifts in the entire political landscape. There are many organizations, struggles and communities that would benefit from a New World political current if it took shape but who are not capable of initiating it.

A strategic vision creates a context for effective strategies to emerge. It is the key to turning the tide. The survival of the world hinges on a war of perception. The actions that are required can only be implemented if people embrace them and powerful interests are committed to preventing that. The Earth's water and carbon metabolism could be dramatically shifted by the immediate transformation of agricultural land use, for example. For that to happen, the corporations must be removed from the picture. We might not know this, but they do.

We are coming out of a forty year cycle of employing strategies and tactics without vision. It doesn't work. There are understandable reasons why we did that. Fine. It still doesn't work.

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