Recipes for Systemic Change - Helsinki Design Lab

lish a movement, such as "no to abortion," "more nurses for the elderly," "noto nuclear power," etc. Political structures are reorganised and new waysfor direct democracy, like interactive planning procedures, are introduced.For example, "open source wiki-applications" are used in city and budgetplanning.Church In CrisisThe Lutheran Church enters into a legitimacy crisis, since it does notmanage to follow the liberal public opinion regarding, gay marriages orwomen priests, for example. Roughly half of the population are still membersof the church, but the trend is declining. Even fewer people practicethe religion. The Lutheran state-church system is abolished. In schools,religious education is replaced by ethics and philosophy. Other forms ofChristian churches as well as other religious groups (including traditionalanimistic religions) gain moderate popularity, but the major winners areatheistic trends. In general, religion is becoming less and less significantin society.Climate ConflictsClimate change reinforces existing drivers of conflict and thereforethreatens achieved development across many countries. Geopolitical tensionalso increases due to the diminishing availability of natural resources.International cooperation drifts in a lock-up situation and nations turninwards. Finland finds itself in a situation resembling the situation in the1960's, 1970's and early 1980's when geopolitical tensions were higher andwhen economic activities were heavily regulated and guided by the government.Industrial production relies on domestic raw materials. Competitionbetween countries is fierce and various protectionist measures such as hightolls on imports are introduced. The highest earning people suffer a notabledrop in their incomes and the overall income level declines. The level ofincome distribution decreases, since government interventions secure jobsand income for most citizens. The majority of people turn to traditionalvalues of ’home, church and the fatherland’.315