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Feb 14, 2023Liked by Rachel Donald

I think this has been a long time coming. In a month where Oil majors are publishing eye-watering record profits and at the same time abandoning their greenwashing attempts (notably Exxon and BP) , we are well overdue for litigation against these psychopaths. Just one major success could be a precedent to show these people there is nowhere to hide.

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Agreed!!!

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Feb 13, 2023Liked by Rachel Donald

Great podcast bring on the litigation, force action and change, start with the fossil fuel giants, let’s change the power status in our global community!

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Feb 13, 2023Liked by Rachel Donald

As always, Rachel, this is very perceptive. My own aphorism is that ‘we are governed by madman with money, and we need to defang them’.

But how? I think it will take millions of people communicating to help folks grasp both our ecological emergency and the evil power dynamics you are so clear about. So I’ve set up Inspiring Transition as a platform to support citizen-educators, and developed innovative communication tools that are easy to use. We have a small international network.

Inspiring Transition is the support platform. My TEDx talk is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4gJvL3y4oQ.

Andrew Gaines

Inspiring Transition

andrew.gaines@InspiringTransition.net

www.InspiringTransition.net

Greta Thunberg will have reason to hope when she sees that mainstream society is committed to turning things around.

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Thanks so much, Andrew. Inspiring Transition looks very interesting! Could you tell me more about it?

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Hi Rachel,

Our Catalysing mass commitment to transformational change slide deck https://app.box.com/s/3lcz1tpgb3tqtv67zwxavw7jromrh2qu introduces the main Inspiring Transition ideas.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Hi Rachel – if you send me your email address, I will send you an article. Two key ideas are mindset change and ‘mass-producing’ conversations that help people think better in this space.

My email is: andrew.gaines@InspiringTransition.net.

Smiles,

Andrew

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It has been my experience over some 30 years in the practice of law that there is a fine line between vengeance and justice.

More importantly, what is your endgame, towards which the demonization of people who work in fossil fuels will move the needle?

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This is not helpful.

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Interested to hear why you think not Tim.

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Feels to me like scapegoating.

We need a mirror, not a spear.

We are heirs to a social narrative that is not right for our times. We need to innovate a new narrative.

Demonizing people who are working deep within the inherited narrative, and playing the old game by the old rules, takes the focus off the real challenge: to write the new narrative that will be right for our times, and make it popular.

Feels a little too Old Testament to me. An eye for an eye. Make the people who created this problem fix the problem.

Problem is, they didn't make the problem. They are working within the same social narrative we all inherited. They didn't create that narrative. They can't be expected to change it.

That's on us. Society, more generally. And those of us within Civil Society to go on a journey of inquiry with open-minds and open-hearts.

That's what attracted me to Planet Critical. That openness to inquiry, and new learning.

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Feb 14, 2023Liked by Rachel Donald

I would agree if this was about revenge, but I think it's more about justice. The decisions of a small group of people, in full knowledge of the consequences of those decisions, have made increasing areas of the planet unliveable for millions and maybe ultimately billions of people, causing huge suffering and death. That small group of people continue to make those decisions, while pouring millions into misinformation campaigns, and will carry on doing so until their position becomes untenable. These lawsuits could be a powerful way of moving the needle. I don't think that is scapegoating.

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