Simon”s analysis goes from what is to what we need and from what we need to how, if we can, to get it. This is a rather material analysis of material conditions. In most discussions about climate change, the frame is managerial: what’s the plan? There is little discussion of politics or culture or human relationships. I think we need a similar deconstruction of social conditions and the possibilities. Bearing in mind, Riffkin‘s view that the social and natural or not separate but a continuous flow.
It is harder because object bundaries are mof interpenetrating and the idea are not so well-known. Fr example Harrison Owen’s idea of Open Space as a way of managing groups, and what is going on in the move in and out of hierarchy, and keep surfacing new leader ship. Or how about the difference between representative and conversational democracy? Does the community culture support or suppress unusual, spiritual feelings?