Brian Swimme PhD Cosmologist – “There’s not been this kind of destruction on the planet since the time of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago”.
Progress has its price.
Duane Elgin, MA Social Scientist, NASA Consultant – “Over thousands of years we’ve been progressively empowering ourselves becoming more differentiated, more identified as unique human beings but in the process, step by step pulling back from the natural world”.
Dayna Baumeister, PhD Co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8 – “The only way we’ll ever make it as a species on this planet is if we reconnect with nature”.
Earth is here for us to use. We’ve now come to an end of that track and it’s no longer serving us. And we see, instead of dominion, we’re really participants in the natural world. And that’s coming more into alignment with some of the Eastern tradition as well as some of the indigenous traditions in spirituality.
Gaia – scientific hypothesis from the 70s named after a Greek goddess: getting away from the idea of nature as machinery and looking into the Earth as a single living system.
If we compared the 3,8 billion years of Earth as 1 year. Homo Sapiens just appeared at 11.30am on the 31st of December and the Industry revolution have lasted just 1 second.
Maybe this new deep understanding required our disconnection from nature. Maybe to reach this full understanding we had to go through this period of disconnection.
The biological revolution. The entire Industrial Revolution was ultimately about taking. Taking materials, taking soil, taking oil, taking water. There’s a limit on how much you can take. By redefining our relation, it isn’t Nature is there for us but we ultimately are part of the natural world. Our lives depend on t. And if we can quiet our cleverness and we can instead borrow the recipe instead of taking the raw materials, then we’ve entered the biological revolution.
Because nature heals, the environmental movement is a social cause movement.
In the same lines as the “Doing what comes naturally” documentary, “Love Thy Nature” talks about the idea of a crisis as an inflection point to change dominion for partnership and reconnection with the natural world.
Something that really had an impact on me after watching this documentary is the comparison of the age of the planet to one calendar year. It is very impressive if you think about the harm humans have caused in such a short period of time.
