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I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and draw the right lessons from that destruction, we might be able to rebuild before it's too late. And then I have that ultimate optimism that even if we can't, life will rebuild itself. In a way, the global economy might collapse, but Gaia won't, and people's ingenuity won't. We will rebuild society, we will rebuild local economies, we will rebuild human aspirations.
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I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
It is not an investment if it destroys the planet
It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
