Shifting conversations and policies on overshoot, human numbers, appetites, and mindsets

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Stable Planet Alliance is an expanding coalition of aligned organizations and individuals who care deeply about our future. We are dedicated to creating large-scale social change to reduce human impacts on our exquisite planet.

 

We first convened in late 2021. Alliance members were deeply impatient with the silencing discourse on ecological overshoot, population and consumption. We still are!

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Our focus is on affecting public mindsets. We recognize that no one organization can have the necessary influence on its own. It will take a multitude of us working to a common purpose.

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Our goal is to inspire mainstream commitment to create a compassionate ecologically sustainable society. Communicating to affect how people think (along with feeling) is the key. Allied organizations can contribute to this while passionately pursuing their primary missions.

 

Stable Planet Alliance is non-hierarchical. We have a core team that provides administrative support and thought leadership. We regard our colleagues – both organizations and individuals – as sensible, responsible and creative, so we do not attempt to control what our colleagues do.

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Our model for change

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We think we have to change this whole system.

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We think that changing this system requires that a critical mass of people recognize that we are destroying our life support systems, and become passionately committed to doing everything required to turn things around to the extent still possible.

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E.g., we have to affect people’s mindsets.

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Our model is to empower the members of established groups and others to act as Citizen Communicators.

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Citizen Communicators take it on themselves to initiate personal conversations with friends and business colleagues about our existential emergency and the need to change the system.

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There are millions of organizations that care about ecological and social well-being. We envision many of their members feeling inspired to act as Citizen Communicators.

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Work with us

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Stable Planet Alliance offers a way that organizations and thought leaders who care about ecological and social well-being can align to affect public consciousness far more effectively than we do at present.

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If you happen to be influential in an organization working for ecological or social well-being, we urge you to consider becoming a colleague.

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Likewise if you happen to be a thought leader, blogger, or podcaster.

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And if individually you are horrified by climate change and ecological destruction, or outraged at militarization or the mistreatment of women and children… or you just care about the well-being of present and coming generations … we would be pleased if you would consider becoming an active colleague.

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Learning

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Our primary focus is on helping people think more realistically about overshoot, population, ecological trends… and the economic-industrial system and attitudes that drive them.

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In other words, we help people think better. Frankly, this is challenging. We help you develop the communication skills to become effective at this.

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We expect that these skills will be useful in your everyday life.

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We embody a new paradigm for social change

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Stable Planet Alliance embodies a new paradigm for social change. Which means, we are not just different from most other groups, but significantly different.

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There are a number of elements in this new paradigm. They all work together. Key elements include:

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• We are willing to take on the challenge of changing the whole system.
   

• Our focus on mindset change:
   

  • Creating the conditions for people to think more deeply.

  • Expanding people’s mental maps.

  • Improving emotional functioning.
     

• We embrace an overarching goal that is bigger than all of us:
  creating a compassionate ecologically sustainable world.

 

• We empower citizen-communicators.
   

• We provide tools to make communicating succinct and to the point

 

• We are set up to align thousands of groups in an administratively simple way that respects their autonomy.

 

• We trust that people have both a core of goodness and a survival instinct; our challenge is to activate them. They may be obscured by unresolved trauma, conditioning, the everyday challenges of making a living and raising a family, and by not being fully aware of our ecological emergency.

 

We recognize that because we are putting forward a new way of thinking about social change, some people will find it difficult to grasp at first.

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Metrics

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Initially our progress will be measured by the number of groups and thought leaders championing the overarching goal of creating a compassionate ecologically sustainable world.

 

We will know that we are beginning to make a difference when we see politicians and leading business people justifying tough decisions on the basis that they are essential for pulling out of our ecological nosedive.

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We are acutely aware that the metrics that count the most are physical metrics such as declining atmospheric CO2, increasing fish stocks, average global temperature dropping, and humanity’s global footprint less than one Earth. To be realistic, we should also include banning and dismantling nuclear weapons.

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The psychological and social dimensions of evolving a compassionate sustainable world are vitally important. Relevant steps include improving child rearing, campaign finance reform, reducing the wealth gap, and no longer regarding corporations as persons.

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Fiscal sponsorship

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We are fiscally and administratively sponsored by Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit. 

 

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