Collective action

It will give you that sensation.

But how long? How long can you stay in the cocoon and hide from the rest of the world? Until the fuels come and affect you? Until the water is cut completely in the world? Until there's no oxygen in the Amazon because everybody drove through it? The main idea is that collective healing comes through collective action, comes through liberation of our land, our planet, and through ease within the communities.

And until you have that, there are ways that we can work through the pain, acknowledge the real sources and reasons for the pain that you have.

We can resource you with moves, things for the children in Gaza, the way we are working now is to release the electricity.

I think we need more of that.

Collective action is key.

Shout out to our friends in France and Albania and Italy and hold on.

Because what would happen to some of those robots if you had a bunch of aluminum foil and you just wrapped some of their sensors in aluminum foil? That'd be

We need collective visions for a better future.

And we need collective action to co-create that future.

We need imagination.

We need innovation.

What we do know from historical and sociological data, from trends over time, from trends at the population level, is that only when we organize and take collective action do we have the power to actually address climate change and shape the system in which we live.

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So what is it showing us?

Yeah, so what our research is showing is that there are many, many different actions that an individual can take to help with advancing climate solutions.

And these different actions can be categorized along this continuum from individual personal lifestyle changes, to collective actions, to system level changes, where the individuals can actually try to change part of the system in which they're embedded, such that back full circle, their individual level actions are easier to take.

So

it's this continuum.

And so over the last, over 50 years, we've been working across areas to do exactly that, to coordinate the private sector and business towards supporting government strategies and interventions in addressing our most complex and challenging socio-economic and environmental issues.

We have about 100 member companies and we work with them through thought leadership, through capacity building and through collective action, always looking at ways that we can work with government and show alignment and coordination.

What have the main challenges been in this space?

Well, I think we all know the major issues as a country that we continue to grapple with that remain stubborn, that remain complex.

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One of the things you talked about in your speech was the sort of working together element, the collective action.

And that's maybe something that would be a criticism of the KBSA in the past.

It hasn't maybe reached a critical mass of membership that gives it the ability to really lobby for things and to really sort of push for change that will help everybody.

So is there a collective action that's possible? And how do you get to that point? What are the things that you want the collective

action to achieve? I think we want to become more of a voice.

And I think we can do that by gaining more members.

I suppose part

What do you say to those people?

And when I talk about collective, just to be clear, collective action, that's not state-sanctioned action.

That is about actually grassroots, you know, that way.

So just to be clear that that's about now kind of, well, I think, of course, we all have our own willpower and we all have our own agency.