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Solving The World’s Issues – It’s Easy.

// December 14th, 2008 // Brain Dump

Wait. Solving the issues currently plaguing the world on a massive scale is easy? Climate change, poverty, crime, abuses, wars, and all that stuff can be easily solved?

You bet.

The challenge has never, ever, been about a lack of ideas or solutions. The biggest challenge in solving anything that involves people, is simply the paradigm shift in thinking and/or beliefs that is required to happen.

Ok, we’ll take an easy one: Climate Change. I hate to say it, however, more focus, attention, and actual change has come about (I believe) since Al Gore did up a small little presentation, video taped it, and dropped it onto a DVD for the masses to see. Sure, there has always been an environmentalist movement fighting to make this world a better place, yet for the longest time their best spokesperson was some ‘naturally clean’, hemp-wearing, pot-smoking, person who was so far to the extreme that very few could actually relate. Mr. Gore steps up, does a presentation, slaps around the people watching it and suddenly, being good the the environment is now mainstream.

So what changed? The paradigm of the masses changed. The shift in thinking based on accessible information changed the way large numbers of individuals think and act towards the environment. The solutions to actually reversing the course that humanity is on is the easy part, but each solution to any one aspect of change brings with it the challenge of overcoming existing paradigms and installing new ones. I’m not saying that Mr. Gore solved anything, however, a shift happened, and it happened in the right direction – it also proved that it’s possible to shift the paradigms of people as to how they view the state of the environment and the path it’s going down.

When we look at issues in ‘The Middle East’ – no, I’m not getting specific – the solutions to the various issues are indeed simple, yet the entrenched paradigms are the biggest challenges. These have been evlovling for generations and generations and the task of overcoming them is daunting to say the least – but the solutions are easy.

It is never hard to come up with a solution to a challenge – it’s overcoming and shifting the paradigms that is the big uphill battle. Look at work, life, city, state/provincial, national, and global issues – it’s the paradigms that are required to change trips us up nearly every time. Does this mean that they can’t be overcome? Absolutely not (the earth is no longer flat and we’re not the center of the universe anymore), however, the bigger the change, the longer it takes.

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