In the informal time at a recent workshop about Collective Intelligence a co-attendee expressed the oft spoken view to me that 'most people will not make significant changes in their lives to meet the flood of effects from financial crisis, peak oil, climate change and the like until they are shocked into change by a crisis".

'Wow', I thought, "just how bad does it have to get before people notice that there is enough already!"

And, "What a skillful job we do at missing the evidence that is right in front of our eyes".

Two bits of evidence here: - 1. A billion go hungry and 2. Gaza water supply critical

I think my colleague was hoping that the crisis would be happening to the proprietors rather than the peasants. Maybe we need to make that happen.