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Governing Climates of Change

"Laying open the soil is like a careful dissection and there is the same astonishment among the students at the orderly beauty of the organs, the harmony of how they rest against one another, form to function. These are the viscera of the forest." Robin Wall Kimmerer, "Braiding Sweetgrass" p. 233 Climate change environments with government authorities living inside central-air denial are like a bullfrog enjoying a nice warm healthy pond life and stubbornly doing his best to continue acclimating as his pond turns into a simmering pan of water developing a fatal case of climate pathology. Communication between organic evolving and devolving systems is often recognized, even frog to atmosphere deductively analyzed, as formal verbal-rational logic choice. Too often slighted are aesthetic-harmonic forms of co-arising dipolar functions within co-passioning messages, statements, appositional architectures assuming desire for continuing organic-systemic interconnection, convex-form/concave-functional inter-relationship between YangForms of effective verbal communication and double-binding yin nonverbal enthymematic co-passioning Function. Hopefully, we learn this sacred ecology as we mature in self-governing with both deductively acquired knowledge and inductively felt dipolar wisdom, discerning appositional differences between regenerate climates communicating healthy WinWin cooperativity, and degenerate climates denying self-perpetuating WinLose competitions. Wise governing choices are less likely when YangLeft merely formally correct communication of facts overpowers rather than co-empowers YinRight co-empowering functions, harmonies, balance, both ego- and eco-systemic, co-arising, dipolar creative tensions healthier than bipolar dissonant noise of patriarchal capital-hoarding pedagogical dominance, monocuturing merely formal ascent to short-term Wins masking descent loss for anthro-inhabitable Earth. Unlike reptiles, how might warm-blooded acclimators define declining climates of competitive pathology? I don't know. Yet I see decline when I feel it as patriarchal violence of form over against matriarchal function of co-passioning wisdom. How do you learn the difference between revolutionary regenerative wisdom and normal devolutionary dominance of further articulating details for merely deductive reason within side-by-side silos of discovery? By also learning their cause-effect co-functional correlational dipolar co-arising similarities, replacing WinLose Either/Or deductive monoculturing trends with WinWin Both/And reverse-hierarchical matriarchal polyculturing outcomes, sometimes revolutionary Yang, and normally evolutionary double-binding self-with-other golden ruling notnot Yintegrity.

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