A TED talk by Rob Hopkins about Transition

"Two of the important stories we tell ourselves are either that someone else will sort it all out for us, or that we are all doomed, I'd like to share with you a very different story, and like all stories it has a beginning.

For many years I worked in education, teaching practical skills that were needed in order to live a more sustainable life. I used to teach sustainability based on the idea that sustainability meant reducing the inputs and outputs to a globalised economic structure, that it was about reducing the impact of an economic model that would continue indefinitely.

Then I found out about an issue which fundamentally changed how I looked at it.
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