Emily is incredibly fortunate to occasionally contribute her stories and thoughts to the Lift Blog maintained by some management and leadership experts she deeply admires, Bob and Ryan Quinn from the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia, respectively. This father/son pair wrote a book entitled “Lift: Becoming a Positive Force in Any Situation” that inspires the blog. This week, Ryan posted a blog that started to analyze an experience Emily had while trying to progress efforts for large scale environmental education and engagement. Ryan takes a first pass at understanding whether or not it matters if people believe in climate change… in this conversation and analysis- maybe it doesn’t.
How to change the world
Here is what we have to offer: a different perspective.
Maybe you feel like the world’s problems – climate change, social inequities, the paradox of scarcity and overabundance – are too big for you to solve or even make a dent. We're not going to argue – our societal problems are often framed in ways that make them seem overwhelmingly hard to solve, and make individuals seem impotent. We’ve felt that way too, but didn’t find it really helpful or healthy so we are moving on…
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