OurGreenWorld's
perspective emphasizes a global view and appropriate scale.
It
is clear that a few million people belonging to various
organizations represent a starting point but only that.
Even seven million people mobilized and organized to act
every day is too small a scale in a world of seven billion
people.
If
you want to help change the world for real, you have to
start by changing your thinking about scale, which is why
we use the slogan, "Act Globally, Think Locally."
OurGreenWorld's perspective is one that derives from a focus
on results and requirements. The right understanding
of needed results, in turn, depends on a deeper problem
analysis that comes from evaluating fundamental questions.
Such
questions are of necessity abstract to get the answers that
work best. At the same time, other questions have
to state specific numbers and measures in order to get results.
What
is a desired state? [For example, 350.org has identified
350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
as the upper limit that scientist agree is necessary for
minimal climate safety.]
What
has to be done to achieve the desired state? [For
example, carbon emissions have to be reduced, but what
does that entail?]
How
many people have to engage in what behaviors to achieve
the desired state?
Who
is organizing and mobilizing people to achieve the desired
behaviors by when? How will that be made to happen?
There
are many organizations working on various pieces of problems.
What is missing is unified action.
OurGreenWorld
and its partners, We, The World and VRCities are working
to build a system that can mobilize the actions of large
numbers of people.
