814: A Course in Sustainability Leadership: 1: The Actual Problem

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Do you think our environmental problems are rooted in greenhouse gas levels or emissions? Or biodiversity loss? Or any of what makes the headlines?

They are symptoms. They all result from our behavior, which results from our beliefs, stories, role models, images, and what makes up our culture.

If we magically fixed all of the environmental conditions making the headlines, but didn't change our culture, we would recreate them.

Every time you say, "individual action doesn't matter," blame someone else or BP, or anything that keeps you polluting, depleting, living unsustainably, you contribute to that culture, even if you really wish you weren't. You fund the lobbyists creating the political forces accelerating more polluting and depleting.

Only by understanding the actual problem can we avoid distractions and solve it.

The video goes into more depth and detail. It sets up all the later videos.

You'll never see the world the same again.

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