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Le pouvoir caché de la pensée systèmes – Gouverner dans l’urgence climatique – The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking – Governing in the Climate Emergency.

The 2020 book by Ray Ison and Ed Straw has just been translated into French by Houda Khayame. This meant that the 27 diagrams and illustrations that I had developed with Ray Ison needed to be translated and the French words and text integrated into the originals. Alas, my schoolboy French … but a number of translation sites were so helpful.

One of the group, Franck Varenne acknowledged the team involved with the French version.

… for the book, click here.

The barely relevant Liberal National Party LNP (or should it be NLP?) has decided to abandon the bipartisan Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions policy: the market will drive energy policy, bring down emissions – and prices …really??

The 2nd National Small Town Reinvention Conference was held at Kapunda, South Australia, 22-25 September. The cartoons illustrated just some of the many moments and messages over four great days.

The conference was another Peter Kenyon of The Bank of Ideas event. Supported by many – in particular Tony Piccolo MP who brought the conference to Kapunda.

The 28 cartoons were auctioned on the last day, the money raised was donated to the painting of the Kapunda silo art project.

Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk once said, “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage.” He preferred the word ‘sympathy’. That is an insight.

At the moment, globally , empathy doesn’t rate highly.

Empathy isn’t to be trashed. It is a skill. It helps find that small piece of common ground between widely divergent stands, a starting point …

Torres Strait community leaders in ‘deepest pain imaginable’ as federal court dismisses landmark climate case.

Concluding the previous post, it’s the legal obligations to the Sámi people that are being conveniently overlooked. The full report – in Swedish – with all of the illustrations can be seen here.