#89 31 Août 2023 16:59:38
Quel magnifique chapitre !
Je sors toute émue de ma lecture. Je vais donc reprendre Limits to growth depuis le début pour comprendre tous les enjeux étudiés avant cette très belle conclusion qui est pour moi un appel au meilleur du genre humain. Avant que le temps qui passe dégrade trop mon souvenir, je m'empresse de mettre quelques mots pour partager ce joli message.
"Everywhere we find folks who care about the earth, about other people, and about the welfare of children and grandchildren. They recognize the human misery and the environmental degradation around them [...]. Many of them have a feeling that the world is headed in the wrong direction and that preventing disaster will require some big changes. They are willing to work those changes, if only they could believe their efforts would make a positive difference. [...] There are things to do: Work out your own frugally elegant lifestyle, have at most two children, [...] find your "right livelihood", care well for one piece of land, do whatever you can to oppose systems that oppress people or abuse the earth [...]. All these actions will help. And, of course, they are not enough. Sustainability and sufficiency and equity require structural change."
*** 5 helpful tools : visioning, networking, truth-telling, learning, and loving ***
"Within the limits of space, time, materials, and energy, visionary human intentions can bring forth not only new information, [...] new behavior, new knowledge, and new technology, but also new institutions, new physical structures, and new powers within human beings." Ca donne presque envie de créer un topic où chacun pourrait écrire une vision d'un avenir qui lui plairait, tant qu'on peut encore rêver. Je sais qu'il existe au moins un ouvrage en deux tomes de ce genre : Siècle bleu de Jean-Pierre Goux, mon compagnon le lira sans doute bientôt !
"One of the most important purposes of a network is simply to remind its members that they are not alone. A network is nonhierarchical. It is a web of connections among equals held together not by force, obligation, material incentive, os social contract, but by shared values and the understanding that some tasks can be accomplished together that could never be accomplished separately." Ca, on le vit tous sur Livraddict !
"Lies distort the information stream."
"All of humanity is in peril [...] if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now."
D'accord avec le principe, mais ce n'est pas si facile au quotidien de dire toujours et toute la vérité, même en ayant cette intention. On a tendance à faire des raccourcis, à mettre en valeur un seul côté des choses, et on n'a souvent ni l'espace ni le temps pour dire les choses aussi exactement qu'il le faudrait.
Quoi répondre à "Stopping growth will lock the poor in their poverty"? "It is the avarice and indifference of the rich that lock the poor into poverty. The poor need new attitudes among the rich; then there will be growth specifically geared to serve their needs."
Il y a plusieurs phrases de ce genre que je trouve particulièrement justes, optimistes et percutantes.
"Learning means the willingness to go slowly, to try things out, and to collect informations about the effects of actions, including the crucial but not always welcome information that the action is not working. One can't learn without making mistakes, telling the truth about them, and moving on. Learning means exploring a new path with vigor and courage, being open to other's explorations of other paths, and being willing to switch paths if one is found that leads more directly to the goal." J'adore ce paragraphe, j'ai l'impression de me sentir plus grande et plus forte à chaque lecture. Est-ce que ça vous fait du bien aussi ces phrases ?
"Whatever you do, do it humbly. Do it not as immutable policy, but as experiment. Use your action, whatever it is, to learn."
"Finding the right balance between the apparent opposites of urgency and patience, accountability and forgiveness is a tack that requires humility, clearheadedness, honesty, and - that hardest of words, that seemingly scarcest of all resources - love".
"It is not easy to practice love, friendship, generosity, understanding, or solidarity within a system whose rules, goals, and information streams re geared for lesser human qualities. But we try, and we urge you to try. Be patient with with yourself and others as you and they confront the difficulty of a changing world. Understand and empathize with inevitable resistance; there is resistance, some clinging to the ways of unsustainability, within each of us. Seek out and trust in the best human instincts in yourself and in everyone. Listen to cynicism around you and have compassion for those who believe in it, but don't believe it yourself."
Je trouve ces mots magnifiques et très profonds. Ce me donne envie de redoubler d'efforts pour créer un monde demain avec de jolies valeurs !
Remarque : je n'ai pas pu écrire le mot LOOPS (en minuscule) parce que ça génère un émoticon... loops
Dernière modification par Claire C (01 Septembre 2023 08:29:51)