#TBT – Make Your Choice: Change By Pain or Insight

July 26, 2023

Change is coming. The problem is humans really only have two main ways of changing, and one of them is painful.

For this week’s Throw Back Tuesday we’ll be revisiting one of my favorite pieces posted on March 3, 2018: “Make Your Choice: Change By Pain or Insight.”

As my long-time followers will recall, back then I was intent on laying bare the harsh realities of our flawed, growth-dependent systems—ecological, economic, and energy—and the urgent need for adaptive strategies. I fervently believed then, as I do now, that we as individuals and communities can proactively prepare and adapt before we’re forced to by circumstance.

More and more people are ‘getting it.’ Something is wrong. The edifice of our infinite growth illusion is now showing cracks. The narratives we have taken for granted are faltering in the face of harsh environmental, economic, and geopolitical realities.