A live journal of random thoughts from Roderic Gill, blogger-in-charge. Necessary Revolution is a constellation of ramblings around the black hole necessity for the cultural shifting of our times; from an endemic plague of over-indulgent consumerism and abject self-centredness to a transcendent perspective that admits the assertion of individual responsibility for our actions and their impacts on ever suffering Planet Earth. Necessary Revolution is really about the need for we people to think more critically about all those things that we accept based on worn-out traditions and unreflexive herd behaviour. The Necessary Revolution is a revolution of the mind. It’s all about the systematic exploration of all assumptions, judicious suspicion of any and all who proclaim themselves to be experts, and putting too much faith in the actions and arguments of others. The Necessary Revolution is about Critical Thinking and how thinking more critically about what we do in relation to our management of environmental resources in particular, is at the core of any pathway to a more ‘sustainable future’.

Roderic Gill has a Phd in the area of Complex System Dynamics, was at one time a professor at an Australian university, was instrumental in setting up Ecological Economics in Australia, has supervised over 20 wonderful Phd students exploring ways and means through which to change the prevailing culture of fragmented, reductionist thinking that plagues our planet, and is a dedicated manic-obsessive cyclist who ruthlessly puts in around 28,000km per year on roads with lots of lovely hills and even more unlovely motor vehicle drivers articulating the creative possibilities for cyclist murdering.