Our current mindset says - Earth is a store of commodities, product, an endless supply of goods. Ours is a life of acquisition and merchandise; we package and discard on a global scale. We injure, exploit, and damage Earth.
We’ve disconnected from the Earth-human bond in order to better exploit her as product, and now our planet is ill, out of balance.
The symptoms of planetary illness:
Record pollution, extreme temperatures, violent storms
Water’s dangerous levels of contamination, life-threatening shortages - the cause of growing conflicts
An interdependence crucial to ecosystems is crippled by nature’s disequilibrium causing food shortages and inevitable massive extinction of flora and fauna
Agricultural threats: severe droughts, floods, substantial crop losses
Increasing forced displacements, environmental refugees
It’s time for a planetary paradigm -- no more incremental thinking and green packaging.
To rectify abuses we need:
A legally binding document based on the Earth Charter, earthcharter.org; implemented by the United Nations; drafted, endorsed, and adopted by all countries
National and local Earth protection policies and laws reinforced by an international tribunal for Earth
Members of the global marketplace to lead with vision -- reframing our economic behavior from a “profit above all” worldview to a “sustainability above all” worldview
To invest research and development in the shaman connection with Terra as a crucial contributor to redirecting global progress
Shamanic communities be given prominent seats at the table along with hi-tech communities so together they will enable humanity to evolve with balance
Many of us, from all walks of life and in every corner of the world, already live a planetary worldview, acknowledging that all life is interconnected and all life is sacred. And ancient cultures, still with us, make Terra a partner in the conversation.
But many more must join us for this planetary paradigm to have political and economic leverage.
