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Are we Ready for a New Story of Humanity?
COVID-19 opened our eyes. Can we keep them open?
As we around the world begin to slowly emerge from whatever form of COVID-19 lockdown we have been inhabiting for the past few months, and start to re-integrate into “normal life”, it is increasingly clear to many of us that nothing will ever be normal again.
We’ve all been forced into the things we thought were impossible, and captured a glimpse of what a new story of our world might look like.
So many of our old narratives that underpin the excuses we give ourselves for not implementing change have fallen away.
Halt global air travel to see what sort of reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions might be possible? — Impossible!
Cut out the daily commute, allow employees to work at home, and trust that they will do their best to work? — Impossible!
Take the cars off our streets to see if the birds and other wildlife might return to our cities? — Impossible!
And now we find that all those wild, out-there ideas of how we can lessen our impact on this planet, lead less busy lives, and spend more time with our families have been thrust upon us in a grand, global experiment. As the stories of our daily lives have been re-written, we’ve noticed…
