Dean Walker > Quotes

“Ultimately, we must escape the shackles of a twentieth century mindset of business as usual, if we are ever to resolve twenty-first century challenges. This will demand leadership, courage, innovative thinking, engaged teams and difficult choices.”
― Dean Walker, The Impossible Conversation: Choosing Reconnection and Resilience at the End of Business as Usual

“Most people in the world do not fly in airplanes. 2˚C and mitigation are not about population. It is about US, the biggest consumers, reducing our consumption and emissions immediately.”
― Dean Walker, The Impossible Conversation: Choosing Reconnection and Resilience at the End of Business as Usual

“The calling of our time appears to me to be a calling for nothing less than a reconnection of human beings to the web of life. It is a calling to co-create some kind of bridge from this collapsing paradigm to some new way of being on Earth in which we humbly return ourselves to being just one part of the web of life, rather than the crushers of the web itself.”
― Dean Walker, The Impossible Conversation: Choosing Reconnection and Resilience at the End of Business as Usual

“We must throw out the delusion of infinite growth on a finite planet. There are alternative measures of a good life.”
― Dean Walker, The Impossible Conversation: Choosing Reconnection and Resilience at the End of Business as Usual

“This is the work that we all have done everything in our power to avoid.”
― Dean Walker, The Impossible Conversation: Choosing Reconnection and Resilience at the End of Business as Usual