UniverCity 2.0 Conference: organise locally to respond globally

Awareness-Based Collective Action through Eco-Social Profound-Innovation as a bottom-up transition pathway

Preview article (draft) — The Basque version of this article is originally published in JAKIN magazine edition 256/257 — March 2023

We are experiencing extreme ecological, social and personal crises, which are exacerbating over time, especially in the last few decades, there has been an acceleration of what can be defined as a poly crisis and systemic failure.

The crises are having major repercussions on the political and economic systems, destabilising the established ‘industrial world order’ as we know it since the second world war, and perhaps putting into question some of the other basic assumptions held in the last few centuries, at least since the enlightenment period.

Globally, Climate Change, and also ecological deterioration on the local level, are all creating major challenges which mean we are at a turning point in the modern history of humanity, since the agricultural revolution which began the era of mass production, and an extractive model based on the notion of infinite resources at the disposal of man to be exploited.