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Is incrementalism enough in a systems-change world?

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By Joel Makower Verified
| Trellis Verified
Here’s a question that’s been keeping me up at night: Are sustainability professionals — all of us, individually and collectively — working at the wrong level? That is, are we making incremental changes inside a shareholder-primacy system that isn’t going to fundamentally shift on any timeline that matters, while the actual root causes sit outside our job descriptions entirely? That’s the juicy topic that Solitaire Townsend and I tackled in this week’s episode of our “Two Steps Forward” podcast.
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Is incrementalism enough in a systems-change world?

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By Joel Makower Verified
| ecotopical.com
Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator. Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
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Katharine Hayhoe says our climate theory of change was always broken

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By Joel Makower Verified
| Trellis Verified
For two decades, a quiet assumption has propped up corporate climate strategy: Eventually, extreme weather, wildfires and other disasters will get bad enough that corporate boards, political leaders and the rest of us snap to attention and finally take on the hard work of countering, and adapting to, the climate crisis. Katharine Hayhoe wants that assumption retired.
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