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Social change is how we move history forward for the better. It’s how we stop things like climate change, discrimination, and violence. It’s how we build a better future, the very reason we have the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and CSR is getting pushed out for creating shared value (CSV). People nowadays are letting social change guide their career paths, even if it means dramatic changes. Social impact investing is on the rise, as well. The definition of ROI isn’t what it used to be.
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Transcript
What is social change?
Misato Nagakawa: Social change is about thinking about your happiness and the happiness around yourself. Because if you think about happiness, you see the gap between the society you live in right now, and the future you want to live in. And that gap is actually the social change you need to make.
I believe the future of social movements should be the choice of the people in daily life. And when people think about social movements, especially in Japanese society, I think people are afraid to take an action or have some kind of fixed image that the social movement is something which is only for specific people, such as activists. But actually, to think about the social change as the daily decisions that you make in everyday life, social movements should be the natural thing in your daily life. So I hope this will be a choice of the people in daily life.
Where should I start with social change?
Nagakawa: You know where to start when you think about yourself and how you live right now.
For example, if you are coming from a single mother family, you naturally understand what kind of difficulties you’re facing right now. So that kind of personal issue is the tip for you to change the society. When you think about it, that’s a society you want to see. So I believe you just need to start from yourself, from your situation.
So [what if] you want to make a social change which is not directed to yourself, such as maybe the rising of the sea level, or solving the poverty issue in African countries? I think you can still make small decisions in your life. For example, if you want to save the planet, stop the sea rising level, you can still take an action such as not to use plastic bags, or to think about dividing the garbage at your home. So I think those kinds of small decisions will change the society as a whole.
Even if you dream big, you can still take can small actions, and those small actions will lead to the big change.
What is the greatest challenge to social change?
Nagakawa: So the challenge is very simple. It’s about you. There’s only you who limits yourself. So don’t limit yourself. You need to have an optimistic mindset that you can do anything by yourself. It doesn’t need to be something very big. You can actually start with something small, but if you don’t do anything, it will not change anything. So don’t limit yourself.