Highlights
Climate and social justice issues are all interconnected. We need to acknowledge the networks and relationships between all of it. Life on Earth in general is relational and networked. Everything touches the other. So this isolation of issues is a myth. It’s false. When you touch one, you touch all of them. When you heal one, you heal all of them.
What we know about the Earth is that there is this natural inclination, this impulse, this natural impulse, to right itself, to heal. Every organism has this natural impulse to heal, to be whole. And that is what I think of as regeneration. This impulse to regenerate wholeness and wellness.
The one thing that I’ve learned too is that we as humans can’t heal the Earth. The Earth is going to heal itself. It’s going to do its own thing, but we can be allies to her healing herself. Strong allies. Our allyship is vital. And we can’t do it out of fear or imbalance or hate even.
The one thing that I think is our biggest crisis, more than climate, more than justice, our biggest crisis is that we believe by and large that we are unable to change and transform the world. We believe we can’t do it. And guess what? That’s all we’ve done. That’s all we’ve ever done is change the world, every moment, every day, big, small changes.
This notion of change yourself and the world will be changed, not so much, if you are not taking it into the world. Because the world is not going to change if you are not aware of the capitalist systems, the racist systems of oppression, all that is happening. We must educate ourselves about the systems of oppression, about racism, about finance, about how all of it, the part that is destroying the planet, the media and all of its participation. That social change must wait until I’ve worked out all of my stuff. No, we have to do it all together.
What you do with your money, whether you have a portfolio or not, is about using it towards what puts life at the center of everything you do. Every choice you make, every product you buy. We have to leave this path of extraction and destruction and join this path of regeneration.
This is our opportunity. This is our opportunity to really create the democracy, the love and justice movement that we really want. Now’s the time because it’s all going to change and shift.
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