Global xxxx

Have just finished ten weeks of traveling around the world four times - meeting the businesses, entrepreneurs and people around the planet that Global Healing Cooperative is working with.

Not exactly the most carbon neutral way of doing things, but in a people focused business, the most import thing is meeting the people that drive the businesses, listening to what they are trying to achieve, and seeing if there is real passion in their eyes to achieve that goal.

So what did I learn from my trips round the globe - thru The Twitter Presidents’ DisUnited States, Brexit Britain, Macron’s Magically Reborn France, Doormat Deutschland, Little Luxembourg, Smart Switzerland, Rising Russia, Hotpot Hong Kong and Oz?

The good news is that I am not wasting my time - there is clearly a need for our Healing Cooperative. The World is broken. At so many levels. Probably more badly than at any time since the 1930’s.

The levels of fear, hatred, nationalism, feelings of despair and frustration - about the future, the environment, the government, the rich, the cost of property, job security, immigrants - are higher than I have experienced in my lifetime - and I grew up in the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud, in a world that still had racial segregation by law, race and religious wars and terrorism, in a country that still had the remains of an Empire that was built on the belief that one race and culture is better than another.

Where we are now cannot be blamed on the minority of Americans who voted in a small handed TV star as president - he is the result, not the cause. The global economic system has focused on putting consumerism above all else, destroying communities, traditions, cultures, turning people into little more than data, to be exploited with ever greater efficiency by technology (Google, Facebook et alios), and cast aside when they are no longer of use - all for the benefit of a fantastically wealth small number of people. There's no wonder the other 99% are not happy.

But if you look beyond the headlines (it's all fake anyway, right?), you see a world that is at a turning point for great change. Change is coming from the people, who are increasingly looking for more from life than to slave away to pay for a new car, phone, or the latest fashion item. And politicians, corporates and institutions will be forced to respond. I have spent a large part of my career investing in and arguing for action about Climate Change: the argument is now over - the world has come together to take action, with the one lone voice widely criticized even in his own country, The levels of starvation and poverty around the globe are at the lowest % levels of my lifetime, And technology is being funded and developed to tackle many of the problems that we still face.

So that is how I spent my 10 weeks - not worrying about the increasingly bizarre and cumbersome checks at airport security (how can I make investment decisions without my crystal ball?), or the noise from politicians and unhappy people - but meeting and working with the people who are building businesses that make a difference - to individuals, communities, and the planet. People of all ages, races, religions, and backgrounds around the world that are making a positive difference, proving the things that people increasingly are looking for.