Dr. Sally Uren is the CEO of Forum for the Future - a sustainability-focused nonprofit. I will be looking into more of her thoughts on the mindset shifts we need and how to create just and regenerative business, but for today, I saw this sentence in an interview she did with GreenBiz, and wanted to share. I agree completely:
“We have to hold three things simultaneously in our minds right now: We have to hold hope — the change that we know is needed to happen. We have to hold despair, since for many people a just transition is just not in the cards and millions of people in parts of the world have already had their livelihoods devastated. And third, we have to hold possibility.
The future isn’t something that happens to us. The world we live in today is a function of the decisions we made yesterday. The decisions we make today will determine what happens tomorrow. So we have to hold hope, despair and possibility in the same frame and really believe that the future is ours to write.”
-Dr. Sally Uren.