Deep Green Money September 2013, Green Money Journal ORIENTATION Many thanks for the opportunity to share the following perspectives with GreenMoney’s thoughtful and caring readership. This article will present ideas, questions and suggestions gathered from a lifetime of attention and observation, and a deep commitment to finding ways to improve where we are going as a species in relationship to natural systems we have been stressing for some time. I believe it’s important for us to remind ourselves that Earth’s natural systems have been functioning perfectly well without humans since long before we arrived. These systems seem to thrive through the ability to course correct, to purge those experiences that are not serving the whole system, and to develop subsystems and life forms that function for the most part instinctively so that the continuation of life and the evolution to greater efficiency and resiliency is constantly being encouraged. Humanity seems to be the exception to this self-regulating harmony, but only in the short term; for in the long run Nature always has her way. The notion that our actions or inactions may “destroy the planet” are typical of mankind’s tendency to sometimes see itself in grandiose terms that are not necessarily connected to the performance of systems we are only beginning to fully understand. Perspective gives us opportunities to see beyond the horizon of our experiences, and to try on a new and more expanded way of evaluating what we are doing, thinking and feeling, what is going on around us, how we might act differently and more effectively; and based on our willingness to explore, what new possibilities may be available to us. I believe our species is standing at the threshold of the greatest opportunity in the known history of any culture on Earth. That opportunity is not only to “save” our spot on this beautiful planet, but to learn new ways of living and acting in harmony with natural laws that will continue on with or without our cooperation; and that have been working effectively for billions of years. The reward for our courage and humility, our caring for ourselves, each other and all forms of life can be a future that includes a quality of creativity, abundance, vitality and fulfillment that we have not known before. |
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