Multipotentialites vs The Climate Crisis

Greta Thunberg’s climate activism waking us up to the climate reality that’s happening NOW (and will only get worse) has made do this: drop a few of my multipotentialite projects to *make space* to add a new one in that will directly contribute to helping people to respond effectively to climate change. (Idea is still under wraps, but coming together.)

If there’s anyone else out there who might be interested in collaborating with me on that, please let me know. You can message me via my web address.

I love this post. Although I don’t get paid for the things I do to help Mother Earth, I’d like to think that being a multipotentialite directed my path. I’ve made some radical changes in my life in order to reduce my carbon footprint. I am a vegetarian working my wait to veganism, my crafts projects have become more meaningful in the sense that I reuse and repurpose furniture and other things to prevent them from going into the landfill, I shop second hand 90% of the time, I compost, I bring my own bags to the grocery store, I carry a reusable water bottle with me, and I talk/educate my friends and family about ways they too can make a simple change in their lives that will make a greater impact in the world.

Thanks for writing this article. I really feel conencted to climate change topic and how you feel about it. It has been a long time since before I discovered myself as a multipotentialite that climate change concerned me and influenced my passions and projects. While studying in the university (I was studying about language and stuffs), I often found time out to take part in environment-related leadership programs. I have been invloved in raising climate change awareness somehow despite language teaching and edtech jobs I landed in after years of graduation. Now that I grow my new passion about data science, natural language processing and stuffs, I also join a environment-theme hackaton in my country from time to time. I was part of team to develop web application to tackle forest fire in my areas. It seems like no matter what I shift my focus into, I always relate them to climate change.

The words “climate change” are used to emphasize destruction and ending of life as we know it. However, there is also fear…and anxiety…and etc, etc, etc. Arrogance about human significance is a factor, but so is appreciation about human reality.

The reality (and the outcome in the daily actual world) is contained in the individual’s intent. And how easily they maintain (or at least with ease repeatedly return to the same intent).

In quantum field theory there is the Higgs field. If I understand “the current understanding of the quantum physicists” correctly, all phenomenon “exists” and “is possible” because the Higgs field “makes” all the other fields (atoms, electrons, gravity, etc) possible.

In the subtle energy fields (as presented by William Tiller, Ph.D. in the book Science and Human Transformation) it is intent that attracts other subtle energy particles that then – when enough are combined – create effects in the daily life, health and well being of us.

As a Taiji teacher with over 35 years experience, I have taught people how to guide their intent and actions … and seen them reduce pain in a couple of minutes … or move freely when they couldn’t before.

The three parts of this blend are intent and actions and the individual choosing gently and persistently what they prefer. Individual intent, individual actions, individual choosing their preference. It doesn’t remove the past, but it does enact the present preference.

Many individuals helped cause the current conditions and conditionings. And many individuals can intentionally help cause much more beneficial outcomes.

Fear is like a clue that something needs “doing” because there is a potential or actual danger. So, 1) start with intent, 2) follow with even a small action that expresses the intent, and 3) persist in choosing the same intent and action(s) (or even improving on these).

As a multi-potential-ite I can easily see many sides, both negative and positive. I can also see and understand the streamlined path or paths to even more fulfilling results and outcomes. To a great extent anxiety and appreciation are optional for me. My intent guides me, my actions express my intent and free my emotions and thinking, and my persistence helps me enact “peace of mind living, being, doing”. [By the way, I don’t avoid anxiety, I explore what it provides for me to learn. For me, anxiety is a “hint” about something that I now need to learn. And so I do.)

The current “climate change and crisis” is “not” a positive experience. But it is a triggering event and experience that can evoke multi-potentials to form the multiplicity of wonderfully innovative solutions and ways to profoundly and simply fulfill their own and other’s daily life and daily concerns.

… perhaps … maybe … what if … and ?

YES.

I’ve spent the last week trying to figure out a “not quite perpetual motion device, but achieves the same outcome” to generate power. I feel like I’m so close.

My team and I closed the office for the day and went to the climate strike.

I’ve been pretty active on the Facebook group @ap4ca which has made me move away from Twitter and I’ve completely stopped logging into the Puttytribe site (sorry..).

And now my business is cashflow negative and unless I figure something out soon it will go broke by the middle of next year.

Hi Emily,

This post has really started me thinking! The climate crisis has not changed either my interests or the way I pursue them. But what is interesting to me in reflecting on your post is that my chosen lifestyle and most of the activities within it are aligned with living sustainably. This approach has emerged from a desire to challenge societal expectations in relation to what we all ‘should’ be doing, a desire for some degree of self-sufficiency, and a desire to reduce consumerism and waste. All of which will postively influence climate if enough people get on board!

My view is that we should all work less, because then we spend less for example on petrol, parking, wardrobe, takeaway food. Working less enables us to have more time to grow at least some of our own food, cook more which reduces waste from takeaway containers, pursue hobbies and participate more in community. Personally, I work part-time, have an embryonic permaculture garden, chickens arriving later this year, I buy most clothes from the op shop, sew and upcycle clothing, make and use beeswax wraps instead of plastic, use fabric grocery bags, buy many food staples using my own containers from a bulk food store, and cook a lot from scratch. We live in a passive solar off-grid house with a stand alone solar system and batteries, and with our own water. (Well, once the drought breaks we’ll have our own water!) And there is nothing like managing your own rubbish to increase thoughtfulness about the packaging of items you are going to purchase as well as what can be recycled. My life also centres around participation in community. I’m involved in a craft group primarily focused on using recycled materials; the local community garden; an environmental group that hosts clothes swaps and other awareness raising events; and I try to ‘show up’ and contribute to community events of all kinds to increase the vibrancy of the small community in which I live, and to broaden connections and relationships. These connections then enable the exchange of goods, services, and skills.

Coming full circle back to the climate crisis, I’m not convinced that creating fear in the populace will work. As Brenda in an earlier comment points out, the important question to ask is what can I do and what can we do. Yes there is a need for some solutions to be implemented on a global scale. I find thinking about this too overwhelming. But what I can do is to seek to influence others. Not by finger-wagging, arrogance, or shaming people, but by providing achievable examples from my own life of how climate impact can be reduced.

Warmest regards,

Jo