July 10, 2026
Ginie Servant-Miklos‘s post resonates strongly with what I said yesterday during our online Knowledge Café with the KM4Dev community on “USAID Knowledge Rescue, a Year Later”:
Quote from Ginie’s post:
“And still, it’s hard for me as well, because I find thinking about professional horizons of 4 to 5 years increasingly difficult. Two parallel worlds exist in my head: one which is intelligible to people around me, in which we are mildly inconvenienced by hot weather but otherwise keep calm and carry on, and one which fits the data, in which carrying on is impossible. And I realise that we simply have no psychological means, individually or collectively, to process this.”
This does not mean we should become paralyzed or passive doomsayers. Whereas Ginie has found a professional outlet to contribute meaningfully to climate action through her work on climate and collapse psychology, our contribution as the “Knowledge Management for Development” community could be to help build and steward a living knowledge commons for creating “agile alliances for the common good” that can truly move the needle and generate collective impact.
