The document highlights the importance of language and relationships in fostering a sustainable transition towards greener economies, emphasizing the interconnectedness of individuals ('ubuntu'). It identifies unconscious consumerism and competition for resources as drivers of unsustainability and advocates for balanced transformation involving all societal levels. The text also quotes Nelson Mandela on the significance of learning each other's languages for nation-building and reconciliation.

1. Growing Green Economies:
Craig Makhosi Charnock
The critical role of language and
relationships in a sustainable transition
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2. Ubuntu / menslikheid / humanness:
Umntu ngumntu
ngabanye abantu
A person is a person through or
because of other people

3. Drivers of unsustainability:
1. Unconscious
consumerism
2. Competition for resources
Why?
Ignorance, fear and

4. Breakdown of human
Relationships
1. To SELF – addiction,
depression, materialism
2. To OTHER – war,
oppression, racism, abuse

5. Unity Consciousness
(UBuntu)
i.e. Good relationships
vs
Separation / Division
Consciousness
(Apartheid)
i.e. Bad relationships

7. “If you talk to a man in a language
he understands, that goes to his
head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart”
Madiba

8. Nelson Mandela:
”(Learning each other’s languages) is the best way
to contribute to nation building and reconciliation,"
Mandela said.
"Those among us who do not know Afrikaans must
now learn to study this language. Those among us
who do not know Zulu, Xhosa and Sotho must now
learn to study these languages."

9. Balanced
Transformation
The privileged also
need to transform!

18. School Immersions:
A balanced, empowering programme

20. Enkosi
Thank you
Dankie
@UBuntu Bridge
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