Waving the blue dot flag for 2024

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#HappyNewYear2024! This year we’ll be waving the #bluedotflag for the protection of life on #Earth.

We wish you a very happy 2024. Let’s make it a year of growth in awareness of, protection of and in love for life on our beautiful planet.

More about the blue dot flag vision: www.climatesafety.info/climaterevolution6

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Working together, we are powerful

“…ever more evident, a yawning, fracturing gap between what we need to do and what we are doing. The justice gap. The financing gap. The implementation gap. The courage gap. The messy middle gap.

That messy space is now marked by violence, conflict, othering and hurt across the world – renormalising hatred, mirroring and amplifying our impact on the planet.

So, how to show up in 2024? Resolute and deliberate; an optimist by force of will. Change is coming whether we like it or not. It is a question of whether we go through it managed and informed and with choices in our hands.

In a context of catastrophic polarisation and fragmentation, how do we dare to do more with innovation – so that it can be transformative; dare to innovate our style of life; work on political goodwill and the responsibility of our origins; and have the courage to question our deepest assumptions about how the world works?

We need to build the social infrastructure for change. We will not solve this if we don’t work together. We need to put people at the centre of their own change. I have been reflecting on what I heard over and over in Dubai: ‘communities and women are going to be the most powerful mitigators of climate change on the planet.’ We need a more emergent strategy to make space for that power. We need to use our emotions, our imaginations, new language, powers of listening; rituals of grief and passing. To make leaps of faith (in all senses) so as to reach a critical mass of involvement and behavioural change. Imagination and policy intersecting.

I step into 2024 with David Attenborough’s words once again in my mind: “If working apart, we are a force powerful enough to destabilize our planet, surely, working together, we are powerful enough to save it.”
~ Kirsten Dunlop, Chief Executive Officer at Climate-KIC

“2023 was the hottest year ever recorded. Climate disasters, wars, oppression and inequalities further intensified – killing and displacing countless people. 2023 was yet another year where people in power fought to maintain their violent business as usual by using dangerous lies, hate speech and greenwashing. There seem to be no limits to the lengths they go to defend the exploitation of people and planet for their own gains and profits. They ignore the science as well as the screams of their own children and the most affected people. All this while many environmental defenders and activists were killed.

But 2023 was also a year when people once again filled the streets, resisted, defended their lands and fought for their rights and freedom. It was a year where many showed global solidarity and stood united in the fight for climate justice. Activists are as needed as ever, even though we are experiencing increased repression all over the world. We are exhausted, but we are also full of love and rage.

We cannot allow things to continue like this. Let’s make 2024 a year of mobilisation, solidarity and accountability.”

Greta Thunberg

Closing the dooks with IDGs

Reflect on the past year and set your intentions for the year to come with the help of the Inner Development Goals framework.

“Given everything that is happening, and your own personal journey, what is the dream that you have yet to realise that you want to bring to life?”

→ Reconnection: Meeting the Climate Crisis Inside Out

→ Bank Australia – 21 December 2023:
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