GENERATIONAL THINKING: making plans that will involve the participation of four or five or more generations. It's a headspace that's completely foreign to the Harper smash-and-grab mutilation of our landscape and society. To Stevie, sustainability means how long can he get away with it.
Anyway snotr is a site with an inspiring video, "The Living Bridge", situated in Mehgalaya, a tribal kingdom in Assam, jammed between Bangladesh and Bhutan. It's monsoon central, there, and building bridges requires creativity, with no construction tools or equipment or materials or money.
Inspiring .. brilliant .. !
ReplyDeleteThank you for that link !
Edstock, it goes much deeper than that. I've got a friend who does research on international climate change negotiations who talks about Western vs. Chinese approaches. The West tends to think on the very short-term, election cycle type scenarios. China has short, medium, and century length planning.
ReplyDeleteFine post, Ed, thanks. There was a time, barely two generations ago, when we too paid at least some regard for posterity in our society. Perhaps unknowingly, we've been paying a steep price for thinking ourselves beyond needing it.
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