New Deal

Like many others I have a growing unease about where our world is heading. Our news is constantly filled with tales of war and corruption and our corporations have seemingly a free hand when it comes to poisoning us for profit. We need a new deal but what can we do? To me, Ghandi had it right when he told us to – ‘be the change you want to see in the world’. This is not a call to ignorance or to bury our heads in the sand pretending atrocities are not happening. Rather he’s telling us to do what we can to show there is a better way. If everyone saw and believed it, there would be no more famine or war for a start. It’s arguable that abandoning monoculture would reduce pestilence and even plague would become rare if people had ready access to wholesome food and clean water. What does your new deal look like? What needs changing in your life? How are you going to be the change – living it out in real time as an example to others? Don’t wait for the inertia of the status quo to slow. It’s not going to happen any time soon; there’s too much money invested in doing the wrong thing. Instead be part of the solution.