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Contents

  • HoPE
  • Preface
  • Overview
  • Part 1 Review
    • The Human System
    • Implications
  • Part 2 Assess
    • Timeline
    • Vision; A Holistic Political Economy
    • Examples; What Good Looks Like
  • Part 3 Consider
    • On Power
    • On Change
    • What Can Be Done?
  • Part 4 Act
    • Strategy
    • Tactics

What can be done?

  • What can be done?
  • What about power?
  • What about change?

End Matter

  • Appendices
    • Method and Approach
    • Systems: An Overview
  • Notes
  • Bibliography

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  4. What Can Be Done?

Using the discussion so far to outline what can be done

What can be done?

We can do a lot, the first thing is to summarise what we have learned so far from the analysis of the human activity system, current politics, and vision.

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What about power?

For the use of power we need to adopt both an ethical and a pragmatic approach, this may be difficult and something of a balancing but it is vitally important. Chosing the appropriate means for our ends is the only way to ensure our actions will have utility in the long term. We need to reject the lure of short term fixes that can be forced precisely because they will not have longevity. All our individual behaviours, the language we use and the way our actions demonstrate commitment and confidence must become and integral part of the project. 

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What about change?

The discussion of managed and good change points to a way forward. If we summarise it we get a challenging list of what has to happen. How it can happen is the subject of Part 4.

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