Earth Isn’t Just Where We’re From
Earth is it. It’s not just where we’re from, it’s where we belong, and it’s the only home we will ever know. If we don’t take care of it, we will cease to exist.
Earth is it. It’s not just where we’re from, it’s where we belong, and it’s the only home we will ever know. If we don’t take care of it, we will cease to exist.
This article is part of the Primer For Paradigm Shift Series and will describe taking the ideals and actions of paradigm shift to a wider audience. We have many allies and assets to work with for sharing what paradigm shift has to offer the wider world.
We seek not to destroy capitalism, nor to reform it, but to transcend it – to consciously and rapidly evolve past it.
The goal of this book is thus to develop a new way of thinking about planetary futures that can help us create more useful and comprehensive maps of the possibility space.
This year, perhaps now more than ever, we need a taste of what policymaking underpinned by the radical imagination looks like.
This fall, as we face the most consequential elections of my lifetime (all 71 years of it), rights that working people once upon a time fought and died for — the eight-hour day, a legal minimum wage, protections against child labor — are, in effect, back on the ballot.
Rather than double down on a failing technological approach to living in this world, we can start walking away from modernity, and figure out new ways to live.
Modern humans have a Stockholm Syndrome relationship to technology, which has kidnapped us while convincing us it has our best interests in mind. But when one looks back at the history of plastics or the current frenzy around AI, it isn’t hard to see the insanity of doubling down on new technology to save us from previous technology.
When it comes to a green future, money isn’t everything. In the case of Indigenous peoples, there also needs to be a variety of support and cultural understanding.
I believe we are careening toward a biophysical and cultural crisis that will very likely destroy money — along with a great many other things. But I also believe that we are falling toward abundance again.
In this week’s Frankly, Nate offers a list of things he is absolutely certain of… or as certain as any human can be.
Toxic polarization is the product of three factors in individual and social development, all of which can be traced back to the beginnings of human society: malignant bonding, the scarcity mind, and historical and trans-historical trauma.