
Vision-Mission-Values

VISION
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To articulate, communicate & build consensus around a new collective narrative or social construct for humanity (accurately reflecting the external social & ecological realities)
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that is aspirational & facilitates societal mobilization & controlled transition towards an energy descent or post collapse future
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characterized by ecological sustainability ,social equity & spiritually satisfying
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MISSION
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To cultivate long-form thinking, holistic & systemic approach in our constituency
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To establish an ecology-centric sustainability think-tank dedicated to participatory action research & education about humanity’s existential predicament and an alternative life-sustaining, low energy (energy descent) future
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To emerge as a thought leader in the collapse & strong sustainability discourse
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To create mass awareness about humanity’s existential risk, response options & transition pathways
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To emerge as a one-stop platform for lifelong adult learning & education in the context of energy descent future

GOALS
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To articulate a new holistic framework of Global Crisis (GC) that incorporates existential risks from ecology, complexity & dual use technologies capable of triggering collapse (societal & biospheric)
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To bring about attitude & behavior shift in our constituency (acknowledge the unsustainability of Industrial Civilization (IC), inadequacy of Weak Sustainability (WS) approach and adopt Strong Sustainability (SS) centric transition road-map)
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To network & synergize with organizations exploring transition roadmaps
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To tackle dis-information campaigns about the efficacy of mainstream sustainability efforts
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To emerge as a one-stop platform for collapse & sustainability related knowledge
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To create a global online solidarity community
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To empower change agents by establishing study circles & local chapters to facilitate bottom-up action
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GUIDING WISDOM
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Everyone (especially those who are most vulnerable & possess poor resilience to shocks) deserves to know the true nature, gravity, urgency of humanity’s predicament and the trade-offs involved in navigating an effective response
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Everyone deserves to be empowered with transition road-maps, knowledge, skills, assets relevant to navigate Global Crisis
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Top-down thinking, bottom-up actions are the most reliable approaches
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Demand reduction measures must be prioritized over supply augmenting solutions
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OUR VALUES
We are critical of policies and ideas that promote:
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Systemic disregard to the risks from ecological overshoot & collapse
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Economic systems
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characterized by exponential growth that depend on sustained rise in consumption & population (just to maintain economic stability)
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characterized by linear model of Extraction-Production-Distribution-Consumption-Excretion’ (Cradle to Grave)
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that aggravate existing trends in resource depletion (sources) & pollution (sinks)
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Hyper Globalization of trade and long supply chain (Hyper-connectivity & increasing civilizational complexity)
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Centralization of economy, power and governance
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Economic inequality and exploitation (economic growth is not a substitute for the redistribution of wealth)
We are supportive of policies and ideas that aid:
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Restoring ‘Holocene like’ conditions by deploying ecological regeneration strategies
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Strong sustainability ideas and principles of Ecological Economics, Permaculture, ‘Degrowth (DG) & Steady State Economy (SSE), The Simpler Way (TSW), ‘Deep Adaptation’ etc.
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Adoption of Circular (‘Cradle to Cradle’) & shared economy
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Build consensus & promoting equity, democracy & cooperative economic activities