7 Words Concepts

Let the problem direct us towards the solution.

Consider this...

"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."

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Whether you’re looking for … 

• What is global warming?
 
• What causes global warming?
 
• Consequences of global warming?
 
• What can we do about global warming?
 
• How can we stop global warming?
 
• Can global warming be reversed?
 
• The truth about global warming

… or any other aspect of global warming and our response to it,

7 Words can help.
 
How?

The 7 Words System is defined by the idea that in all the complexity of human relationships, with each other and our surroundings, there are only seven core gestures of communication and interaction. They are encapsulated by 7 primary words ...
 
                No       Hello       Thanks      Goodbye       Please       Sorry        Yes

... and accessed by 28 keywords. For example, No’s keywords are: Boundaries  Identity  Choice  Truth

The 7 aspects of expression are the essential themes within all things—they convey the necessary stages that healthy exchanges go through because they are the foundation of all thoughts, ideas and behaviours. Their presence and use are signs of a comprehensive and responsible approach, whatever the subject, including global warming. By deepening our understanding of these 7 words, and their associated keywords, we can come to clarity, truth and completion in all our dealings with everyone and everything in our lives..

 Benefits can be gained from applying 7 Words in all the following areas and many other aspects of global warming:
 

The 7 primary words ...

                No       Hello       Thanks      Goodbye       Please       Sorry        Yes
 
  ... are among the first words we learn in childhood and yet they are not understood or used particularly well, despite their simplicity. By renewing our focus upon these primary words we can simplify and deepen our attitudes to how and with whom we choose to live.   

We can consider whether 7  words might be used to examine the deeper waves that underlie all changes.  Let’s look briefly at the greater cycles of change underneath the babble of so  much detail and so many opinions—look at the major facets of human evolution,  at least the Homo Sapiens bit. We  can say that civilisation began to express awareness significantly above  the animal level when tools were used. Before that human behaviour very closely  resembled that of certain animals—in particular by surrendering to the  inevitable danger and hardships of life because no better condition was  imaginable. This suggests Yes, the acceptance of what comes without resistance.  The tooling-up of the hunter-gatherers coincided with their saying No! They no  longer accepted fate and chose a new reality wherein nature could be tamed a  little. The truth was affirmed that humanity was a significant partner in the  co-creating of Earth conditions. ‘We are no longer sleeping children of the  Earth Mother; we are awakening and growing up’. Our prehistoric Yes became  No, the beginning of the story of civilization.

No

The  Agricultural Revolution marked a major universal shift in humanity’s thinking  and was clearly No-like. Fences were constructed around land, establishing both  clear boundaries and the identity of those who were normally allowed inside  them. People were required to choose to belong to a particular social group—and  not to any other, and not to continue their hunter-gatherer meanderings.  Foragers who wouldn’t invest their labour into putting down roots were  excluded. Thus clans became nations and, protected within the walls of their  city-states, they grew wealthy.

Hello

The  Hello era that followed accelerated as people developed their languages, shared  knowledge, skills and ideas and learned more about getting along with  neighbours—who had become much more permanent. Without land to tie them down,  the early hunters had had less need for social skills, being able to refuse  involvement if they felt uncomfortable. As exchanges opened up, communication  took on an even greater level of importance. To exchange surpluses and find  ‘new breeding stock’ required that various groups reached out the hand of  friendship in trade—or the less friendly version in skirmishes with  neighbouring groups. Curiosity  also became a major factor that promoted travel and cultural exchange. Its twin  sister inventiveness applied itself to overcome hardships and came up with  ideas like yoking oxen and irrigation—mechanical devices that can be seen as  early heralds for the next leap forward—the Industrial Revolution. The building  of railways and telegraphs and spreading of newspapers even to the working folk  are all clues that this period was the flowering of the Hello era. The world,  previously an incomprehensible concept, was now navigable by even the poorest  wayfarer with enough spark and an ardent curiosity.

Thanks

As much as the seeds of Hello were clearly  visible within the No-like Agricultural Revolution, the seeds of the Thank You  era can be identified within the industrialization process. Leisure became  increasingly known as a major social phenomenon—until it became widespread across  all classes in the developed world. The poor were still relatively poor—yet  only by contrast to the richer rich. In the middle of the 20th  century many ordinary working people were rescued from domestic drudgery by  washing machines and they could watch TV and drive cars. People became free to  appreciate the good life, to express options about what they valued. The  governments of rich countries gave compassionate aid to the hungry. And, at  least for a while, we felt thankful.

Goodbye

The Information Revolution could be said to  have arisen in the mid 1960’s when microchip technology enabled electronic  things to come about. This made the processing of data incomparably faster and  fanned the flames of humanity’s obsessional lust for information. Now we are  given all the information we need to see that the Industrial Age was not  handled very elegantly—we had forgotten to deal with all of its  ramifications—and the first major complaints were becoming clear sounding.  Words like ecology, global warming and CND were introduced into our language,  firstly by a group of people who were born around the late 1940’s. In  the Goodbye era we would expect to observe the 4 keywords: realization,  decision, completion and moving on. Well, indeed, now we are—at least some of  us—coming to the realization of what the Industrial era has done. Next comes  decision, and this is not so clear. Unfortunately, those who can really make a  difference, the powerful Western industrialists, are not yet willing to decide.  When they do decide we will need to go through a stage of completion. Our task  is to reach completion on the Industrial Revolution—to clean up. Only then can  we expect to move on. 

There  is good reason to expect a tidal-wave type of change as the baby-boomers of  1946/7, who were born to express humanity’s moving on from wartime, begin to  retire at 60. This is the hidden bomb whose long shock-wave blast has rippled  throughout the post-war period and is being projected into a future where it is  ready to explode. Pensions will become increasingly tight and great pressure  will arise to allocate diminishing resources to ageing and unproductive voters  (as long as democracy holds). But these same people have had to compete all  their lives for limited resources and have become quite used to making  governments change their position—on matters like the Vietnam War. And we have  to acknowledge that when they came of age in 1964, they pushed the boundaries  of convention like never before. As they approach retirement, they will do  whatever they can to look after their own interests. Unfortunately, whereas now  it takes three workers to fund one retired person during the next 30 years the  dependency ratio will worsen and by 2036 it will need to be only two. We’ll all  have to work harder, longer and more effectively by a margin of 50%. Either we  wake up to this now and do something or we can learn to expect that as old  folks we will be cold, hungry, sick and uncared-for.

Goodbye is ruthless; a  decision must cut the past from the future. We need to make a difficult  decision that will change the face of economics and politics forever, and we  need to make it now.

What's next?

Please will be  next, and unified intention, cooperation and prayer will be the qualities of  the era. Please begins with vision, so perhaps we may pray for a collective  vision of world peace brought about through a widespread shift of awareness.  These major revolutionary shifts are happening more quickly as ‘time speeds  up’. It took tens of thousands of years for hunter-gatherers to learn their  lessons, thousands for the agricultural wisdoms to be assimilated and a couple  of hundred until we saw the ambiguities of industrialization. So 40 years after  the Information Revolution of the Sixties, we ought to be ready for another—a  bedrock change in how we see things, how we think and how we act upon those  thoughts. Presumably this can be called the Consciousness Revolution.

If you have enjoyed this brief summary of 7 Words and would like to know more about how it can be applied in detail to all aspects of life in general...further information and suggestions are available in the form of free questionnaires, reports, eBooks and other study material ...and for even more detailed explanations and examples of 7 Words applications, try the workbook: 7 Words Principles and Practices.

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So we encourage you to use 7 Words to explore all of these:

 
• What is global warming?
 
• What causes global warming?
 
• Technologies that cause global warming
 
• Fossil fuels and global warming
 
• Consequences of global warming
 
• What can we do about global warming?
 
• How can we stop global warming?
 
• Can global warming be reversed?
 
• Solutions to global warming
 
• Business solutions for global warming
 
• Animals and global warming
 
• Global warming and agriculture
 
• Global warming and climate change
 
• Global warming and health
 
• The truth about global warming