1.KOB15_Jackman Photography.jpg — Karen O’Brien

**Author**
Karen O’Brien has a beautiful way of communicating complexity in an inspiring and actionable way. With passion, commitment, and an eloquent pen, she is one of the most cited researchers in her field, and a sought-after lecturer. Karen’s goal is to contribute to a “quantum leap” to an equitable world where all life can thrive. She has been thinking and writing about climate change for a long time, starting when she lived in Bangkok in 1968.
Karen O’Brien is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo in Norway, and co-founder of cCHANGE, a company committed to empowering and activating organizations and people to engage in equitable and sustainable transformations.
She has participated in four reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2020, she was a co-recipient of the prestigious BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge Awards for Climate Change.
Karen has written and contributed to scores of articles, books, and book chapters, including the recent “Climate and Society: Transforming the Future” for educators and students.

“Karen O’Brien invites us to rethink what it means to be a living, thinking agent in our hyper-complex and troubled world. It’s a hopeful book about our capacity to enact progressive change in the face of global challenges.”

— NOEL CASTREE, University of Manchester

Responding to climate change with clarity, coherence, and wisdom requires a strategy that transcends the urgency of the moment and enables us to engage with new ways of thinking, being, and doing. This book invites us to broaden our understanding of «mattering» and explore new paradigms for social change.

You Matter More Than You Think introduces a radically different way of thinking about climate change and social change. Inspired by ideas from quantum physics and quantum social change, it describes a conscious, nonlinear, and non-local approach to the transformations needed right now to address multiple global crises. It is grounded in our inherent oneness, recognizing that we are entangled through language, meaning, and shared contexts.

This perspective on «mattering» shows us that our deepest values and intentions are powerful sources of individual change, collective change, and systems change, and can generate a future where all life can thrive.

About the book

Tone Bjordam

**Artist**
Tone Bjordam is a Norwegian artist who specializes in projects related to nature, perceptions, and science. She works with video, animation films, nature photography, abstract and nature- inspired paintings, intricate, detailed drawings, and sculpture installations. She is passionate about finding ways to communicate science through art.

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