Next, what about high leverage points and emphasizing the social side of the problem?
It was only the middle of this year that I started to begin working with others, after four years of developing these concepts and deliberately working alone, so as not to fall into the same ruts and groupthink as others. The Sierra Club is the first environmental NGO that I’ve worked with. This came about because a neighbor, Curt Smith, is a member and the leader of the Gwinnett group. I’ve contacted other environmental organizations, but have gotten nowhere, with one exception: the US Association for the Club of Rome (USACOR). This is because they are not environmental activists. They are academics, scientists, businessmen, civil servants, etc. Thus they are closer to being able to judge the value of an idea themselves, without the need for relying on the opinion of someone else. It seems that because I don’t know anyone in an environmental org besides Curt Smith, I can’t sit down and explain these ideas one on one, where they seem to click rapidly. But I didn’t have to do that with
