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What can we do?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens<\/a> teaches an honours course called \u201cReality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.\u201d Hagens operated his own hedge fund on Wall Street until he glimpsed, \u201ca serious disconnect between capitalism, growth, and the natural world. Money did not appear to bring wealthy clients more well being.\u201d Hagens became editor of The Oil Drum<\/a>, and now sits on the Board of the Post Carbon Institute<\/a> and the Institute for Integrated Economic Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reality 101 addresses humanity\u2019s toughest challenges: economic decline, inequality, pollution, biodiversity loss, and war. Students learn about systems ecology, neuroscience, and economics. \u201cWe ask hard questions,\u201d says Hagens. \u201cWhat is wealth? What are the limits to growth? We attempt to face our crises head on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some students feel inspired to action, and some report finding the material \u201cdepressing.\u201d One student shared the course material with a family member, who asked, \u201cSo what can I do?\u201d The student struggled to answer this question, and the listener chastised her: \u201cwhy did you explain all this to me, if you can\u2019t tell me what to do?!\u201d<\/p>\n

A fair question. One that, as environmentalists, we often get asked. At the request of Dr Hagens, here is my list:<\/p>\n

What can we do?<\/b><\/h3>\n
\"Tapaj\u00f3s<\/p>\n

Rainbow over the Tapaj\u00f3s River in the Amazon \u00a9 Todd Southgate \/ Greenpeace<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I have been asking this question all of my adult life. As I\u2019ve witnessed the crisis intensify, I\u2019ve experienced feelings of panic, anger, and\u00a0helplessness. Nevertheless, I also feel at peace. I love my family and friends, I enjoy life in my community, and love my time in the natural world. Here are some of the ways I believe we can deal with anxiety about the world and take action:<\/p>\n

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What can we do? At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens teaches an honours course called \u201cReality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.\u201d Hagens operated his own hedge fund on Wall Street until he glimpsed, \u201ca serious disconnect between capitalism, growth, and the natural world. Money did not appear to bring wealthy clients […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[387,485,20488],"class_list":["post-35037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-greenpeace","tag-limits-to-growth","tag-rex-weyler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35038,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037\/revisions\/35038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}