This is the 1st half of the closing session of the Awakened Action series begins with Christiana Figueres joining from Costa Rica, fresh from COP30 in Berlin. She shares her striking observation of “three realities” at the climate conference: the scientific urgency, governmental paralysis, and 50,000 activists accelerating change. Christiana emphasizes the fundamental importance of choice—between defeatism and opening possibilities—calling this “the COP of choice.” The session spans loneliness, democracy, and the commons, examining how technology can both connect and isolate us. Molly Crockett warns against AI companions as solutions to loneliness, while Roshi Joan notes “In the modern colonial world, we are disciplined to be lonely. The oppressors call this loneliness individuality” (Jessica Chang). Valerie Brown shares Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ “Letter to a Young Activist in Troubled Times,” reminding us: “Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.” Encouraging reminds that the future is created not only by our actions but in what we believe is possible.
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