Shifting Paradigms, Nurturing Courage for Global Change and What It Means To Be A Pathfinder

In this episode of The Pathfinders Collective I sit down with Alex Rahir to answer his questions about The Pathfinders Collective - what it is for, why it exists, and what it seeks to achieve.

We cover emerging economic paradigms, theories of change that suggest we can’t have social transformation without personal transformation, eco-anxiety, climate grief, entrepreneurship and regeneration.

We tackle and address limiting beliefs that delay action, we identify why it’s actually more painful for climate activists to give up than to keep going and how climate change is an opportunity to re-imagine civilisation.

We learn that there is no one path, no one Pathfinder, instead we recognise that diversity, cooperation and collaboration are essential to meaningful action on climate and that no one person can do this alone.

Prompted by Noam Chomsky’s words of advice to Extinction Rebellion, we ask if there is a way to make the greening of capitalism profitable in order to accelerate the evolution of the current system into something new.

And finally, we learn how deeply interwoven our thoughts, beliefs, feelings and communities are in creating and changing the way we see the world, which in turn determines how we act to change the world itself.

Top Quotes:

“It’s more painful to give up than it is to keep going”

“We can’t have social change without deep, personal change”

“Can we make the greening of capitalism profitable and reward its evolution?”

“We don't have the time to completely deconstruct the system and start again. We have to work with what's in front of us”

“We can create a legacy by trying things out, testing things out and passing it on and hopefully finding things that work”

“I think we have to wake everybody up and that might annoy a lot of people. But then, once they've become aware, we need to take them with us, so we need to engender a system that actually rewards the kind of behaviours that we want to see in the world. That's how economies work.”