2.4 Four conditions for effectively tackling the global and planetary crisis

There are four essential conditions for acting with swiftness, agility, efficiency, wisdom and caution in response to the global and planetary crisis.

The first condition is to identify an ‘emancipatory horizon’ and a great ‘narrative’ of enchantment, one that will revive an ethic and aesthetic where not everything depends on a rationale based solely on efficiency and effectiveness, but also, and most importantly, on the relevance of the actions we take, i.e. that they must be coherent with said narrative.
Concurrent to the collective imagining of a great narrative of enchantment, the second condition is to gather en masse, to facilitate consensus, even to federate on a large scale. This will require us to generate a narrative from a place of inclusive consensus. Inclusivity will then facilitate the forming of a great social pact. In order to attain this level of consensus, however, we will need ‘network leadership’ that is respectful, inclusive and has the ability to unite.
In the aim of demonstrating the feasibility of an inclusive, democratic, proud and ecologically sound society, the third condition ensures the emancipatory proposals’ relevance and viability in the face of the global and planetary crisis.
The fourth condition accounts for the limitations of existing organizational and institutional structures, and maintains the importance of making them more flexible, mobile, agile, versatile, adaptable, transformative and subversive. It thus ensures that transition initiatives successfully implement the acceptable developments in order to facilitate a just and decent institutionalization process. It will also simplify the transition from subordinate experiences (formal ‘subsumption’) to fully recognized experiences (real subsumption), favouring a course of action that is respectful of ‘extensionism’, and an evolutionary hominization process consistent and in harmony with the evolutionary processes of Nature’s other components.