Click here to read the entire interview. The planet is ever-changing, impartial to those living in it. A precarious position for humanity, one could argue, as passive and powerless dwellers in a seemingly chaotic environment. While there is truth is this statement, humanity is far from being a passive or powerless dweller.
Perhaps one of the most recent and impactful indicators of our ability to impact and change our environment and those living in it, is the rapid deterioration of the natural environment, primarily as a direct result of human exploitation. The rapid depletion of natural resources can be traced back to a not so distant moment is history: the dawn of the industrial revolution.
This momentous episode in our collective history, was indeed catalyzed by big ideas to redefine what it means to be a modern human, and it continues to have huge implications in our lives to this date. Ideas can inspire, lead people into action and catalyze change.
But this cannot happen in a vacuum, ideas come from people, actions come from people. We all swim in the oceans of history; we play in waters that have touched every shore, we get drenched with the brilliance of ancient cults and imagine new horizons as we sail in journeys into the unknown.
Every waking moment in our collective journey, we have a renewed opportunity to imagine a different today, to shape a better tomorrow. Bold ideas can help shape a vision for a better, more equitable global society. But our actions, both big and small, will define the path we will have to follow. The question remains, where will it lead us? Within the framework of social change, the relative newness of an idea, as well as its proposed outcomes, are contingent upon the historic and sociopolitical context of the place from which said idea originates or for which it was designed to serve.
