Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨What she could have said: We are going to ban fracking because it is bad for air, water, people & climate. Then we are going to take care of the people who are employed in that sector, helping them re-skill for jobs in the clean economy with good health care, child care, and pay
The core value that ties that all together is that we, all of us, Earth, water, fossil fuel workers, clean energy workers, and the children who will live with the consequence of the rhetoric on this stage today, are all part of an interdependent web & we can only thrive together.
...I'm holding out for a debate within my lifetime where the candidates compete to exhibit the best, most ethical, most strategic #SystemsThinking & the pundits are grounded in the realities of complexity and interdependence on a tiny planet floating in a the blackness of space
Where physics, biology, the Earth, the more than human, and future generations are all represented in the "fact" checking.
I mean they actually are fact checking this whole enterprise of the patriarchal supremacist extractive growth society, just in a decades to centuries time scale (which for the Earth is rapid feedback, to be fair).
Anyway, since the people actually lead on matters of worldview and ethics, the only way to get that debate I want is to become a society rooted in the ethics and values of interconnection and interdependence. Which is something we can each do a tiny bit about every day.
Stargeezer Smith@bethsawin
The debates as they are today are just media events. Important policy or analysis of problems we face no longer come up. Just a peek at the personalities is all we get.
The debates as they are today are just media events. Important policy or analysis of problems we face no longer come up. Just a peek at the personalities is all we get.
Roberto@bethsawin that would be possible in a world where the elections were about the ideas and not about the people in charge.