A short spoken monologue by Gil Friend linking courage (rooted in ‘heart’) and love to the motivation for pursuing sustainable futures. Friend argues that courage—whether personal or institutional—and love/passion are creative forces that call people into greater action despite legitimate concerns about climate risks, animating commitment to a possible better world.
It's worth saying that this is also about courage, about the courage of people to declare a future and step into it, whether it's an individual taking action for their family or an executive as a fiduciary of other people's money, saying, we're going to do this with your money instead of something else. It takes a certain measure of courage. And, you know, the word for courage is the same root as the word for heart. And heart takes us all to this other quality of love. And there is an aspect of love in this work, of the things that we care about, the people that we care about, the kinds of communities we want to live in and the lives that we want to live in. And it turns out that love is a pretty phenomenal creative force. Love and passion and enthusiasm call people into their greatness and into their courage and into possibilities they may not have seen before. And so, as concerned as we might be about the risks of climate change and other challenges that we face, and there's reasons for those concerns. I know for me and for the best people that I see in this work, what's animating us is a passion for this work and a passion for the possible world that we see.
