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Making the shift to more sustainable societies and economies involves building what sociologists call social capital. This involves getting people with different views and values to talk and listen to one another, find common ground based on understanding and trust, and work together to solve environmental and other problems. This means nurturing openness, communication, cooperation, confrontation, and fear.

對能轉變並維持社會和經濟的建立是社會學家所稱的社會資本。這意味著使人們有著不同的看法和價值觀，跟其他人討論與傾聽並找到普遍的了解和依靠，一起解決環境和其他的問題。這些環境因素的公開、傳達、合作和希望與阻止思想的保守、對立、對抗、和恐懼。


Chattanooga’s story shows that a key to finding solutions to environmental problems and making a transition to more sustainable societies is to recognize that most social change results from individual actions and individuals acting together to bring about change by Bottom-up grassroots action. In other words, individuals matter-an important theme of this book. Research by social scientists suggests that it takes only 5-10％ of the population of a community, country, or the world to bring about major social change. Such researcher also shows that significant social change can occur in a much shorter time than most people think.

Chattanooga’s的故事顯示，發現對環境的問題解決辦法且製造足以支撐社會轉變的關鍵，大部分社會的改變起因於個別的行動和個體一起行動導致由下而上基層行動的改變。換句話說，個體問題－這一本書的重要主題。藉由社會科學家的研究意味著，只有 5-10％社區的人口，國家或世界導致主要的社會改變。研究人員也顯示，重要的社會改變在非常短時間中能發生勝於大多數的人想法。