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Can We Build Bridges Between War and Sharing? We’d Better Learn!
Friday, September 19, 2014 3:14
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Our growing knowledge that we can only continue to live “successfully” on this planet lies in our understanding the function of the biosphere within which we all rich and poor, fundamentally share the Earth’s basic resources, air and water.
Water is universal and should be harvested by individuals and communities.
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The animal world breathes out carbon dioxide while the plant world ‘breathes’ out oxygen. There is no such thing as waste in the biosphere, only a swapping of ‘natural’ resources.
The plant world (including nitrogen-fixing bacteria) can also provide us with all the nutrients we need to maintain an immune system that can beat ‘diseases’ like Ebola.
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If we localize our economies and learn to feed ourselves, we might even become proficient at looking inwards instead of staying locked into consumer competition [which is] is very clever in promising us happiness,
a ‘good life’, a more comfortable life and security
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“We are all searching for security. But it is a false sense of security that we are being sold – a dangerous fantasy [that] enforces the belief that perpetual growth of the current system is needed, even when the world economy is on its knees.
“The same system, that is, that has already led to [global] economic upheaval, social divisions [with] universal pain and suffering.”
