Climate change and its effects can be countered through belonging

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limate change and its effects can be countered through ensuring everyone has a powerful sense of belonging and along with that an understanding that they are included.

Modernity has engendered a society-wide idea of individualism that has is the cornerstone of the world’s market system that has two marked unintended consequences.

Capitalism has expanded and profited because of individualism, which has left many in our communities with an unexplainable feeling of “aloneness” and beyond that seriously depleted earth’s resources and, at least on a human time scale, disrupted and caused irreparable damage to the earth’s climate system.

One troubled by the sense of “aloneness” and somewhat alienated by the capitalistic market system and disenchanted, even unconsciously, by the depletion of earth’s finite resources and the subsequent damage to the climate system appeared recently on the ABC’s Q&A.

A Postdoctoral Fellow at European University Institute, Vivian Gerrand, writes on The Conversation about the Q&A show in here story - “Zaky Mallah: a cautionary tale of radicalisation and the need for belonging”.