Shouting in the wind

There is nothing wrong with, and every need for, outrageous ambition right now as we seek to transition from an industrial mindset to something altogether more integrated and inclusive.

Overcoming the natural resistance of those who the current system benefits is a challenge. They are well rooted, and no matter how much we shout, they are more than capable of resisting for a long time yet and all the time they do that we don't make the progress against climate change, biodiversity, equality and all the other assorted unintended diseases brought on by the last hundred years of growth at all costs.

Being combative may be dramatic and satisfying, but all we get is the partisanship so evident in our politics right now. Making change at this level and this scale is different - it happens one person at time, and then one organisation, and then a city, and onward.

It's each of our jobs, and no one else's. There are people we can follow, and be inspired by but in the end it's down to each of us.…