Despite all we know, many species still face a growing threat of extinction. Do we need to pay more attention to concepts like entanglement and start acting like all species matter, including our own?
Who was that professor? I believe we need to name these mentors who were ahead of their time so we can honor them. One of mine was Theo Coburn who wrote, Our Stolen Future. The ten-year anniversary of her death is today.
If you are in Namibia, I recommend you consult with Mama Visolela Namises. She can talk to you straight about entanglement. I hope there are indigenous people at your gathering. Mama Visolela, sometimes called the Rosa Luxemburg of Namibia, walks her talk and has since she was a teenager. She is a force of nature.
Thanks for all your good effort, Karen. When you have some down time, allow me to recommend a book that is not only directly on point here, but at the same time a great escape (can a book be both? YES!). Richard Powers' new book "Playground" ~ if, like me, you are a YUGE Sylvia Earle fan, you will flat out LOVE this book. Reading it's early pages on the first ocean expeditions with SCUBA capability, it is so amazing to think all this has happened in my/our lifetime. Which leads me to think that when we finally get around to putting all our efforts into regenerating Earth, in the same way we decided to go to the moon less than a lifetime after the Wright Bros., imagine how much GOOD we could do in a similarly short time span! Yes, entangled species. Enlisting Gaia as our ally instead of seeing Her as our foe, rival, or lab rat. Working with keystone species AS a keystone species. Your work is crucial, Karen, as is all those working on IPBES. Nature is the Answer to all of our questions and dilemmas.
You could call the course DODO = Do OR Die Opportunity. Awareness is key but how to make 8 billion members our spieces aware of the fact that everything is intertwined and that we have to work together instead of fighting each other. Even the winner is the loser. We are unconsciously destroying ourselves. Maybe is has to be this way? Evolution is doing what it does but it's increbible stupid that we are destroying ourselves. Keep up the good work!
Me too! And I‘d love to spread its content locally, to help wake up our 8 billion fellow humans.
What about designing a fractal course taught globally whose students — those who are inclined to — spread the content regionally and locally via handing down the matters dealt with in the global course, enriching it, if possible, by regionally and locally relevant issues? I‘d already have an idea where to offer such a fractal relay course locally …
Who was that professor? I believe we need to name these mentors who were ahead of their time so we can honor them. One of mine was Theo Coburn who wrote, Our Stolen Future. The ten-year anniversary of her death is today.
If you are in Namibia, I recommend you consult with Mama Visolela Namises. She can talk to you straight about entanglement. I hope there are indigenous people at your gathering. Mama Visolela, sometimes called the Rosa Luxemburg of Namibia, walks her talk and has since she was a teenager. She is a force of nature.
What a great idea!
Thanks for all your good effort, Karen. When you have some down time, allow me to recommend a book that is not only directly on point here, but at the same time a great escape (can a book be both? YES!). Richard Powers' new book "Playground" ~ if, like me, you are a YUGE Sylvia Earle fan, you will flat out LOVE this book. Reading it's early pages on the first ocean expeditions with SCUBA capability, it is so amazing to think all this has happened in my/our lifetime. Which leads me to think that when we finally get around to putting all our efforts into regenerating Earth, in the same way we decided to go to the moon less than a lifetime after the Wright Bros., imagine how much GOOD we could do in a similarly short time span! Yes, entangled species. Enlisting Gaia as our ally instead of seeing Her as our foe, rival, or lab rat. Working with keystone species AS a keystone species. Your work is crucial, Karen, as is all those working on IPBES. Nature is the Answer to all of our questions and dilemmas.
You could call the course DODO = Do OR Die Opportunity. Awareness is key but how to make 8 billion members our spieces aware of the fact that everything is intertwined and that we have to work together instead of fighting each other. Even the winner is the loser. We are unconsciously destroying ourselves. Maybe is has to be this way? Evolution is doing what it does but it's increbible stupid that we are destroying ourselves. Keep up the good work!
I would enrol in that course!
Me too! And I‘d love to spread its content locally, to help wake up our 8 billion fellow humans.
What about designing a fractal course taught globally whose students — those who are inclined to — spread the content regionally and locally via handing down the matters dealt with in the global course, enriching it, if possible, by regionally and locally relevant issues? I‘d already have an idea where to offer such a fractal relay course locally …
Hear, hear!