![]() ![]() We have the heart, knowledge, money and sense to optimize out social and ecological fabric. Ecological restoration is extraordinarily simple: You remove whatever prevents the system from healing itself. All people and institutions including commerce, governments, schools, churches and cities, need to learn from life and reimagine the world from the bottom up, based on the first principles if justice and ecology. It’s not too late for the world’s largest institutions and corporations to join in saving the planet, but cooperation must be on the planet’s terms. If that is difficult to believe, take a winter off and calculate what it requires to create a single springtime. If we squander all our attention on what is wrong, we will miss the prize: In the chaos engulfing the world, a hopeful future resides because the past is disintegrating before us. My hopefulness about the resilience of human nature is matched by the gravity of our environmental and social condition. It will be the stroke of midnight for the rest of our lives. Helen Keller threw aside the gnawing fears of chronic bad news when she declared, “I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!” In such a time, history is suspended and thus unfinished. Some say it is too late, but people never change when they are comfortable. It will soon suffuse most institutions, but before then, it will change a sufficient number of people so as to begin the reversal of centuries of frenzied self-destructive behavior. ![]() I mean that the thinking that informs the movement’s goals will reign. I don’t tender the claim in an oracular sense. I don’t mean it will defeat, conquer, or create harm to someone else. ![]()
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