Transitional Decade outline

Outline for Transitional Decade.

1. Context
   • context
2. Problem
   • problem
3. Discussion
   • Forces
     • Time is not on our side.
     • We need to make this transition to a better world as quickly as possible so we can preserve what we still have.
     • Our people, world and planet are all sustaining damage every day.
   • So how do we speed things up?
   • Fuller outlined how we could do this in what he called the Design Science Decade. The United Nations has issued goals like the Sustainable Development Goals that have deadlines spanning about 15 years.
   • Designating a decade is really more about the time scale we’re dealing with. We need to make the change in a matter of years, not decades or centuries. We don’t know what the exact start date was, but at some point, there will be an acceleration of change that historians will look back on and call the transitional decade.
   • We can use existing technologies as much as possible. There is no need to wait for undeveloped ideas to save the day; we have what we need, at least to avert disaster in the short term.
   • The transition is as much about changing ourselves as it is about changing the world. If we can develop ourselves in meaningful ways while also developing the world, that will be more efficient.
   • Therefore:
4. Solution
   • solution
5. Posttext
   • posttext