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Multi-careerist. (Then again, I have lived!)

Human rights. Compassion. One World.

Life. Openness. Humility.

Hope.

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We did not know then. We know now.
It’s right to change.

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Founder Host of @LU_TIOW LookUp, THIS is our World — News with a climate edge! Saturdays, Mother Earth First club: 1700BST Feb-May2022

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We are where we are because of where we’ve been. Where we go now is up to us.
We can choose the shape of Tomorrow, today, now.

It starts with me/you/us.

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Our world faces “an immense cultural challenge. It means giving priority to the common good, and it calls for a change in perspective, a new outlook, in which the dignity of every human being, now and in the future, will guide our ways of thinking and acting.”

In climate change/health/food/ migration “crises” we must “act in a more responsible, consistent manner toward a *culture of care* for our common home; work tirelessly to eliminate *the seeds of conflicts*: greed, indifference, ignorance, fear, injustice, insecurity and violence”

(Pope Francis on BBC Radio 4, 29/10/21)

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Human life is grounded in three fundamental and closely intertwined relationships: with God, with our neighbour and with the earth itself. (Laudato Si’, 66)

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To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
(Raymond Carver)

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In Search of Meaning (Frankl)
No Man is an Island (Merton)

🌱 Thoughts that preoccupy me:

Public or LIFE principles??
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-7-principles-of-public-life/the-7-principles-of-public-life--2

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https://youtu.be/SJyP43zg5r8
Mission Economy
(Mariana Mazzacuto writes on changes needed inside governments and public-private relationships to make ‘stakeholder’ capitalism real.)

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An Insider’s Perspective
By CAI XIA, former professor at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party. ->>
https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/xia_chinausrelations_web-ready.pdf

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‘吾曹不出, 奈蒼生何’
‘If people like me do not take a stand, what hope is there for our fellows?’

Rural destitution is a widespread and crushing reality; greater support through public policy initiatives is essential. Without major changes, half of China will be stuck in what is little more that a pre-modern economic state.
(Xu Zhangrun, 2021)