The Opportunity Is to Remember the Rather Limited Control We Have Over the Greater World

Author of Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival and senior fellow-in-residence Post Carbon Institute fellow Richard Heinberg shares the simple truth that power has a lot less to do with what you’re granted or what you have than what you do.

🎙In his monologue, Rushkoff explores the opportunity we have to confront the realities of climate change now that its effects are here. “But now that the effects of our own activity are upon us, we have no more power to mitigate them than the toddler does of preventing chest of drawers from toppling over.

📚You can read the written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, “It’s Good to Feel Small” on Medium.

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