The world around us as we know it is collapsing: from economic structures to political edifices to scientific understandings. If the people hold tight to what is, we will miss a wonderful opportunity to define what is to be.
Therefore, I consider it an honor and a privilege to be here with the visionaries of GVP media and all of you who are ready to put your brains and your brawn into the work before us of crafting a world that values human dignity and that recognizes that without a healthy planet, mankind, itself, stands at the brink.
I have prepared a brief video to share with you now. It shows both the challenges and the successes upon which we can build our solid foundation for change.
[SHOW VIDEO, VIEWABLE AT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KYPDKUqqEM ]
Well, there it is. James Brown is right: "We've got to take it higher" and Gil Scott-Heron is right, "This ain't life, this ain't nothing but a movie."
Who in this room is willing to step outside of
their comfort zone in order to secure a better world for all of God's
creatures, including this planet?
Have you as of yet made your contribution to human dignity? Ecological wisdom? If not, why not. And if not, when will you take your turn?
Probably too many of us bought into a different paradigm. A paradigm that threw consumerism and the opportunity to have "mountains of things" at us. The lure was shown to us on television, in radio ads, the markers of "success" lay in consumption of things we didn't even want or need! And in the final analysis, that "mountain of things" doesn't even make us happy.
And in the final insult to the Earth, Nature became something to overcome, to dominate; something from which to make money.
And this was the gospel that was spread by colonialism, neo-colonialism, and now, by globalization.
Perhaps it is that the more we leave our origins, those traditional or old-fashioned values that were at once derided, and become modern chic, the more distanced from nature we have become, too.
And it is far easier to get swept along with the current than to swim against the tide.
I believe I am with you today, however, only because I've chosen to swim against the tide.
But, sadly, there are too few of us. Seems, it is far easier to forget about the human debris, the collateral damage of our delirious feeding frenzy and the toll it takes on the earth, itself.
Something, eventually, had to give. And now the Laws of Nature come back to us in full force
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