Like galaxies colliding, anticipatory action is now about learning to move within irreversible change.
For years, the work revolved around evidence: if only we had better data, clearer models, the right proof, then the world would act. But the real crisis has always been relational. Communities are flooded not because we don’t understand enough, but because the institutions that must act don’t trust one another enough. Funding chains move slower than the seasons they seek to anticipate.
True preparedness flourishes where relationships are slow to grow and quick to repair. Where communities, governments, and responders build trust strong enough to share risk and power. Where funding is not granted with strings attached, but rooted in accountability that flows many ways. Only then can people closest to crisis decide and act on their own terms.
Perhaps the Magellanic Clouds offer a good metaphor. Two galaxies bound by gravity, circling one another as they move toward eventual union. The process is messy and protracted, but in that gravitational stew, new stars are born. So, too, with anticipatory action: creation through relationship.
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