Six in One

The idea of change seems to be very popular these days. But, change itself is rather difficult to pinpoint because of that bothersome rhetorical stand that asks for a comparison as in "change compared to what" and the unfortunate reality that what is being presented as change is monotonously just more of the same and often of a lesser quality.

Change, by definition, is to transfer from one set of characteristics to another set of characteristics. That is something we have never done well in Planet Earth 1.0.

Let your keen mind wander through your own sense of history and meet me back at this realization with your own sense of reality about change or the lack of change thereof. Now let's question why that is so and take it from there.

It happens that when you prepare a dish from an old recipe using the same ingredients, albeit in different proportions to suit your taste, you end up with a variation of the same recipe. But, you do not end up with a new one.

A new recipe requires an ingredient or ingredients not used previously, as well as, an arrangement of the ingredients that is as new as the results obtained and the effect they have on the desired improvement on the old recipe.

It stands to reason, then, that change is possible and that the transfer from one to another set of characteristics is the event that reveals the fact that change has taken place. Particularly, this is what must happen as we go from the recipe that produced Planet Earth 1.0 to the recipe and transfer (transition really) that is producing Planet Earth 2.0.

The social recipe or the organizing ingredients of human society in Planet Earth 1.0 from its beginning are government, science, mysticism (or religion), industry and media. As I mentioned in my last post here, it is very likely that the further we have gone away from Nature (over millennia) as we laid out the recipe for "human nature," that these ingredients (social components) became more and more disconnected. Eventually, they became totally separate components. Today, we don't even recognize them as ever having been integral players with Nature in the organization of the survival requirements of our own species. It's not even questioned whether they could be (in principle) an integral part of all life on earth, too.

Allow me to clarify something at this point. The reason I use the term "organizing principles" is because we just gave these names (government, science, mysticism or religion, industry and media) to our interpretation of organizing principles that have been at work since organized biological life took hold on Earth billions of years ago. Granted we gave them a new "twist" to suit our human nature. But, fundamentally, their place as survival natural-receptors and their roles in Nature were already there.

I know that this may feel as uncomfortable as a new pair of shoes to you. But, like new shoes these ideas should wear better with use. One need only consider that it has been mostly human arrogance that has kept us from making these vital connections between the way Nature makes life possible and our conception of it.

The real change comes as we link ourselves back into the natural program bringing to it something that Nature never had before. I'm speaking of "us" as a creative partner, an independent force of nature, if you will, a "changed" being with the capabilities to manage the creation of a new world.

Of course, if you look closer, you will discern that we have already created a new world of sorts. The trouble is that we did not create it to last or to be sustainable, or to include the lives of the other 30 million species that live and contribute to life in it.

That is why this realization is important. We are at a new point in our development and the knowledge that comes out from our partnership with Nature is the key to our success.

Government, science, mysticism, industry, media and Nature are the ingredients of a full recipe for survival. There is plenty more for us to discover and for us to understand as to how and why they all must work as an "integral structure" and most importantly what "new principle" mediates their interactions.

Our failure as a society is due to their dislocation, a malfunction that got progressively worse in innocence because we did not know that was the case. It is only because our survival is in jeopardy that we can (or are beginning to) look beyond our arrogance to embrace Nature's recipes now that we have finally learned of the cause of our troubles.

Just look at ourselves today as we insist that government be the entity to fix all that is broken and forcing that already bankrupted component to also play all of the parts. Why? What is the role for the other components? Just to complain as government fails? How can we be surprised at the results? But, there was never much we could do about it because, until now, we never had a choice.

But now we do. To embrace that choice is to finally come up to the plate for real "change." Planet Earth 2.0 is a showcase of the change that we are capable of undergoing. Fortunately, it is taking shape as we layout these formative realities, tools and the ideas that not only provide the contrast, but that also provide the aesthetic content of our new possibilities.

I can't wait to see the geniuses of those respective fields begin to tackle this problem from its integral perspective so that they can show us the hard numbers that go with it and the vitality of their interaction in the process. I hope they know that we are counting on them, that life on Earth is counting on them.

I'm, as they say, just an artist. But, look how far I had to go to find my role and the material to fulfill it.

The illustration for the blog today is "Six in One" It has taken me a lifetime to complete it, but here it is. What we call government, science, mysticism, industry and media are interpretations of organizing principles that, mixed together with Nature and a measure of sufficiency, make one heck of a new recipe for change.

Albert Einstein said, "the most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." Well, I say that it is about time to take the ball and run with it while there is still some time left on the clock to play.

For your copy of "Six in One." click here or on the image above.

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Solar Being

There is little doubt in anyone's mind that all life on Earth is dependent on our Sun-Star and that our planet depends on the sun for its orbital stability within this solar system.


When you look at the work of art that I chose to illustrate our blog today, I invite you recall other images of human beings staring towards the heaven. There are many such depictions. They can be found in the art of just about every culture that has ever existed all the way back to prehistoric rock art (petroglyphs).


The interpretations as to why our species has had such a long infatuation with the heavens are as many as they are visible stars to the naked eye. But, all have one thing in common. They bring into mind the intrinsic mystery regarding all things above in the heavens.


"Solar Being" as presented in my illustration breaks that pattern forever because it adds something vital to the ancient mystery. I will try very briefly to share with you what that is and the implication it has for us as we move forward to sustain life in our little corner of the Milky Way.


The reconciled human being in my last posting, "Reconciliation IV," is one who has broken through the thin cultural membrane (human nature) that has kept us separate from Nature-at-large. As I dramatized in the text, it is this new type of human who will engender Planet Earth 2.0.


It happens that the reconciliation with Nature that is celebrated in a new partnership between us and the process of life in our world becomes a sensory experience. When it is coupled to our understanding of the cosmos and the rare but wonderful circumstance of life in this solar system, and as we grow in our respect, care and sustenance of Nature, this reconciliation becomes a conscious landscape. Standing in such landscape, we look to the heavens no longer wondering what is there. Instead, we now see the enhanced and augmented realization of who we are in this vast context, where we live, why and to what purpose.


A solar being of that sort may be thought of as the Universe's way of experiencing itself through the evolutionary outcome and the realization of a life form as exquisite as we are to be.


The implications of this are mind-boggling at every level of human discourse. Essentially, we are talking about the realization of an ancient desire to know and understand the mystery of the heavens. But, now we can finally discover what to do with this knowledge and why. And, we can discover this precisely at a point in time when such realization can become the difference between life and extinction for us.


Our ancient attraction to the heavens has come full circle after thousands of years. Now for the first time in the history of our kind, we can see for ourselves the idea of "home" radiate from our head out to the edge of the universe just as the light from the sun does. All the while, the light of our reason and the light of the sun are busily entwined to sustain life in the part of our solar system that we call "home."


When we set a prerogative like that at the foundations of a new world, I dare say that aspirations of this scale dwarf the petty aspirations of wealth and power that are at the foundations of the 1.0 world that we now inhabit.


On a side note, (and you may have noticed the same thing) isn't it peculiar that for the most part the arts have had such a poor reputation as contributors to the dialog pertaining to issues like these that we are tackling here? And yet, here is before you one illustration that encompasses the entire history of human fascination with the heavens and delivers a two-fold result --a conclusion to an old mystery and the beginning of a new greater one.


I said that we will begin to get into the tool box in this blog. And, here we are. I hope that you are still with me because the story gets better. The reason I wanted to show you a larger picture of "home" is because our solar system operates the way it does because of a number of physical laws that work together to produce a fairly uniform result. Even if these may vary a little here and there, this is a very typical scenario throughout the entire Universe.


Hold on a minute.
Since the whole thing works together as one single Universe, our solar system and everything within it (including you and me) are also a byproduct or result of how those same laws expressed themselves according to conditions and events unique to our location in the cosmos. Remember that old chestnut "location-location-location"?


My point is that, down here on Earth where we live, we are still influenced by those same laws and organizing principles. Their value to us today is that we now have a good idea of how they operate and why that knowledge can be used on our behalf as we go forward.


Therefore, as we venture outside of our cocoon (human nature) and into the world as a creature of this Universe, we do so in possession of a knowledge that no other being on Earth can express in ways like we do. It is as if one single cell living on your toe has come to realize who you are and why both it and you constitute one single being.


Add to that realization a spirit of reconciliation with the Nature of the entire system and a resolution to partner with Nature to create a new tier of sustainable continuity for life on Earth and "Presto!" we are transitioning to Planet Earth 2.0.


It follows that it is worth remembering that we (humanity) organized Planet Earth 1.0 (not knowing it at the time thousands of years ago) based upon our own experience and a very primitive interpretation of a natural organizing principle of survival. Over time this became a number of separate organizing agencies. Most are still very popular and with us today but, even now, not fully understood. I'm talking about the components of human society that we know as government, science, religion (the mystical realm really), industry and media.


It is possible that, early on, the fragmentation of these components was ushered by convenience in the distribution of power and resources. In time, these agencies drifted into an odd mutual relationship that, in a peculiar way, pretended to work separately. They (government, science, mysticism, industry and media) were never really able to work together or separately in actual practice, as we can easily see today. I will try to further explain why I think this is so in a future posting here. But, for now, please bear with me.


In Planet Earth 2.0, however, the first effect of our reconciliation with Nature is to notice that this organizational dislocation that took place so long ago was probably responsible for our eventual separation from the natural process. It caused us to create our own "human nature" to make up for the deficit. But this never quite worked out because, with nature out of the picture, all that was left was mindless competition for the control of the shares of power and resources. Fast forward to today's Planet Earth 1.0 and we arrive at the most recent incarnation of that ancient mess.


Happily as we enter an age of transition with our new partnership with Nature, the first thing that we gain is access to Nature's own organizational framework. As part of it, we begin to understand how the integral clockwork of survival operates. We can now choose the right combination that allows those organizing principles to finally work together. And, they can do so without losing their identities, their importance and their natural roles in Planet Earth 2.0.


To kind of sum things up and close today's blog, allow me to suggest that Planet Earth 2.0 is simply the logical landscape for a species that has come of age. Granted, this new transition for our species came through a difficult history. But, the dedication of thousands of individuals to solve the question of who we are has finally resulted in, not the end of the mystery, but the beginning of a new one with a new role for us to play and a new world to build.


For your printable image of "Solar Being" click here or on the image above.


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Reconciliation IV

In my last posting I mentioned that Nature's survival strategy is to create conditions conducive to life. The contrast between that strategy and ours (human nature's) is best observed in the separate outcome of each and the startling evidence of the end results.

Nature's (meaning life on earth's) survival strategy, I dare say, is a "sustainable continuity" of a multi-layered life process that has been integrated for over billions of years to produce uniformly at each of its exponential expressions (or layers) conditions that are adaptable and conducive to life.

Ours is the strategy of a species that has yet to develop sufficiently to be a part of that greater strategy (although we are at the tipping point to do so.) However, our childhood as a species has only taken us as far as to create conditions where life is merely a proprietary resource conducive to riches and power. What a point of contrast this is!

If I was an extraterrestrial being observing the species, the above conclusion would be the overall observation that I would record from my visit to Earth, particularly after experiencing and witnessing, first hand, human activity (and reading the news) for just a few days. I would also note that a brief survey of the rest of the earth environment suggests sufficient evidence to support the observation.

Dear friends, I intend no disrespect, but this is Planet Earth 1.0. It is a culture that we must face up to and transition away from towards Planet Earth 2.0 where, as I said in my last blog entry, we may be able to rejoin Nature's strategy. And, we can do so at an entry level that has never occurred before in the history of Life on Earth.

I have chosen the work of art titled "Reconciliation IV" for our illustration today because I think it illuminates the scope of my remarks regarding this very crucial but special moment in our history as we come to terms with the end of our childhood as a species and prepare to enter the transitional period towards our adulthood.

My art has always been about imagining what that reconciliation between art (as human expression) and life (as the process we are examining) represents for the future of our species and that of the rest of life on our planet.

As you may have realized, Planet Earth 2.0 is a creation no different than was the creation of Planet Earth 1.0 right after our discovery of fire and of the stone spear-point. Like then, Planet Earth 2.0 is a new cultural theatre, a new stage at the beginning of a new story where humanity departs to develop a different plot to celebrate its new place in the history of life.

Similarly, just as Planet Earth 1.0 began with the knowledge of fire and a new hunting tool, Planet Earth 2.0 begins fully aware of their (fire's and spear's) evolution, ultimate capability and their combined effect on life and the world over the last 100 millennia or so. Those thousands of years of labor constitute the landscape of realities that have attended the world that we have created beginning with those inventions and skills.

I wish to merge closer and closer in our conversation to the ideological landscape of Planet Earth 2.0 which is by far more interesting than rehashing too much on the detail about the innocence of our upbringing as a species.

Planet Earth 1.0 has come as far as it can. Perhaps, it has come even further than it should have considering the amount of work that is going to take to straighten out its deeds.

Fortunately there is enough, I think, science and technology (on the human side), planetary natural remnants (on Nature's side) and time to build a new world. Please notice that I say a "new world" because the illusion that we can restore the current world that our children are inheriting is untenable.

There may be enough time, know-how and material to build a new one. But, the world of the 19th or 20th centuries is all gone, never to return. To think otherwise is permissible, but just as foolish as rearranging the deck chairs on the RMS Titanic as it sinks.

The aesthetic reconciliation of art and life, as predicated by Data A art, was the first indication that we (humanity) can indeed rejoin the process of life on earth, albeit, at a different level and under different cultural circumstances.

The resulting conditions makes it possible to match Nature's own disposition. Thereby, the birth of a partnership between us and the world which has never existed before is enabled. This new partnership constitutes the only way that our survival requirements can be sustained alongside those of the other life-forms that are needed to support us as an ecology in a unified global environment.

So what will be our new role in that survival strategy?

Our new role is so exciting that, if you had any misgivings about leaving Planet Earth 1.0 behind, the incentives on Planet Earth 2.0 are such that you will soon perish the thought.

Consider for starters, the unbelievable history of the industrial age--all of its ups and downs, its poverty and riches that focused the incredible power of human ingenuity to tackle the conquest and absolute destruction of an entire planet (as we are still engaged in doing.)

Imagine, then, based just upon the current workload stemming from the global issues that need immediate attention, a similar but reversed focus applied to the construction of a new world and the sea of opportunity that there will be for totally new jobs and career opportunities and the new sense of wealth and well-being that surfaces with the spirit of the construction of a new world.

It is wise to consider that when we work in partnership with Nature we are secure of a partner that delivers the seasons on time each year. Nature is a partner whose sole aim is to maintain a "sustainable continuity" that, incidentally, already aptly provides food, shelter and a reproductive future to a million trillion creatures (just in the insect family, for instance) Nature does it on time, on budget and without waste.

Now, with a partner and a role model like that we just can't go wrong, people. Why would we want to remain so steadfast to an outdated culture that has already delivered all of its promise?

What makes our new role in Planet Earth 2.0 so outstanding is the fact that we have an opportunity that no other creature in the history of life on Earth has had. Namely, that we will be the first creature that has ever lived to actually be able to prevent its own extinction by partnering with nature and using our technological genius to create a new world that is suitable to us and what remains viable for long term-life on Planet Earth.

Let me close for now with a reference to the work "Reconciliation IV" that illustrates my remarks.

I believe that the best way to come to terms with the complexity of this moment in history is to simplify it against a greater complexity. This way, our narrow view of the world is rendered to its simplest expression or to the reality of just what it is.

"Reconciliation IV" is about a human being who has evolved to realize its place in the universe and the implications of its presence in the scheme of things. It is the simplified story of the fish that crawled out of the water, grew up to embrace the harmony of its home (earth), its place in the solar system and its role in the continuance of life as we know it in this blue marble on the outskirts of one spiral arm in the Milky Way.

In my next posting, we will begin to get into the tool box that is making these dreams a reality.

For your own printable image of "Reconciliation IV" click here or on the image above

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Quotation

I have chosen this sculpture titled "Quotation" to illustrate today's blog and, also, to make a direct distinction between the meaning of the word as an "extraction or a passage quoted" from someone's literary work and my own attempt to share a quotation taken directly from Nature at large and interpreted as such.

It is important however, that before we get to the quotation, that we take notice of the fact that we humans have become very good at putting words forward to present suggestions and ideas intended to discuss the issues regarding what we consider to be our most pressing needs. But, other than words, what do we really produce in the final analysis?

If you have been following this blog for the last few months since I have introduced the idea of Planet Earth 2.0, you may have noticed how challenging it is to introduce a new idea of this scope and to find the concise words and the level of verbal brevity that can secure an opportunity for mutual understanding.

I understand that the idea of Planet Earth 2.0 is a large claim to make. However, the purpose of this blog is to share, at least, the aesthetic armature and relevant material that I have gathered to back up the claim.

Therefore, allow me to go back to my original question regarding our tendency for discourse or conversation about critical issues. "But, other than words, what do we really produce in the final analysis?"

The fair answer is, "So far, very little."

Why?

Let me propose a two point answer that hopefully reduces millions of attending answers and potential arguments to their basic substance or, as is often said, to the bare bones.

First we are at the end of a development period in our history as a species that could be called "the age of short-term enlightenment." The priorities of our ascent to this point did not include the incubation of the cultural assets that are now so obvious by their absence. A short list of these missing assets include our respect for life, respect for the environment and their combined effect upon the health of the planet. Clearly, our future generations are severely handicapped by these deficits.

Instead, humanity has been primarily focused on its self-identified need to conquer the world, at all cost. And, we have succeeded in that. But the "all cost" includes climate change, environmental devastation, standing-room-only prisons and the economic collapse of a consumer society.

Secondly, we are finally just beginning to realize that we desperately need this missing asset. (Let's call it a long-term perspective on life and a cultural infrastructure to support it.) Yet, all we seem to be able to do is to take comfort in the words, phrases and slogans that resonate a semblance of how great it will be if this asset was ever to present itself for real and in enough time to make a difference.

It follows that, unable to put these wise words to work for us at this critical junction (because there is no cultural base to support their use) we just talk about about them, we link our contacts to them, we argue about them, we blog about them, we fight about them and we... you know the rest.

In the brief time that I've had this conversation with you, there are already voices that suggest that the idea of Planet Earth 2.0 is all rubbish. I respectfully say, in return, that this work can only be dismissed as rubbish in the presence of a better and more promising idea and, preferably, one that (like our model) is already at work and producing the desired results.

Now that we are on the same page, let's take words to a new level.

When I talk about Planet Earth 2.0, I'm also prepared to show the points of contrast between it and the old model. The first point of contrast is its long term perspective for creating conditions conducive to life. Please note that it is not "total conquest and domination" like the "1.0" model it replaces.

It could be said that a new perspective like that, in and of itself, is enough. But, it is not. The most difficult part of the problem to replace an exhausted survival model like Planet Earth 1.0 with a new one is the transition between them. This is the challenge at hand now.

Fortunately, the answer is quite apparent to us. In Nature "the appearance of the need is just the preview to the appearance of the adaptation needed to overcome the deficit." This means that we know that more of the same will not service. But, we also know that being knowledgeable of that fact is okay since we have the ability to change and embrace a new strategy. What remains for our species to overcome the deficit, then, is to establish the strategy and to layout the foundations.

Planet Earth 2.0 is an aesthetic armature for a model that addresses these problems. It is designed not to be any more complicated than that even if its implications are profound.

We might not be able to embrace fully a new survival strategy in our lifetime. But, we can certainly embrace the groundwork on behalf of our children and do what we can to to secure it. Nature has already mastered that process in more ways that we can imagine. The information is there for the taking. Why shouldn't we?

Therefore today's blog, and the work of art that illustrates it, is an extraction from something that Nature does all the time. We may have not really noticed it because, perhaps, it was not time yet for us to notice.

So this is today's quotation:

"Nature's survival strategy is to create conditions conducive to life."

Our prerogative in Planet Earth 2.0 is to rejoin that process. "How" we rejoin that process and "what" will be our new role in the survival strategy for life on earth is the topic, or point of contrast, for our next blog posting.

If you desire a printable image of "Quotation" click here or on the image above.

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Behind the Veil of Planet Earth 1.0

Today's illustration is titled "Behind the Veil of Planet Earth 1.0." I think it is a good follow-up to "Green Dance" for a number of reasons. Some of these I will touch on briefly in order to enhance the central point of the title work and, for that matter, this blog.

I titled the work "Behind the Veil of Planet Earth 1.0" so that I could reference the work to Francis Bacon, the iconic British painter whose own search for reality and the sense that "we live though screens or veils" so influenced this work and my decision to offer it as an homage to that great artist.

For me, as you may have noticed, Art and Life are just two sides of the same coin. This painting makes that idea so clear that you can easily see what part of the work was done by life (meaning Nature, of course) and which part I did myself.

As Francis may have said in this particular case, Life provided the accidental armature for the work and I interpreted it in mutual partnership. You may notice that the eye and most of the anatomy of the central figure is actually the natural grain of the wood surface upon which the rest of the work is painted. The rest is my process to adapt the natural gesture of the wood to the reality of my own experience in the world and my grasp about what our world (Nature in particular) is experiencing as a result of our actions.

Many years went by in the completion of this homage to Francis Bacon, as the piece was worked on and reworked again. But, from the beginning the painting hinted more and more to being a kind of a mirror, an enchanted mirror existing as if under a magical spell cast by Merlin. Curiously, the work has the propensity that, when someone looks into its surface, it seems to have a way that mirrors the viewer's own anguish and despair in the privacy of their own conscious.

There is really no question that presently the outlook for civilization is gloomy. And, there is little doubt among historians and scholars that life in general has always had a tendency to be harsh, brutish and short. I'm saying that life has never been easy save for those intermittent instances that punctuate our drama with moments of joy, awe and fulfillment.

The relevance between this work and "Green Dance" is that, while business as usual continues on the surface, behind the scene there is a kind of anguish and despair about the amount of time left to do something meaningful that is suffered by those (thousands really) who are diligently working to solve the challenges we face. Our work is largely ignored. Our pleas in regards to the impending catastrophe that we are bringing upon our children and our world is often ridiculed behind unsupportable and petty arguments.

I've said before that it is useless to blame innocence for deeds committed under its spell. But, things are quite different now because innocence is no longer at work. The spell was broken by the reality of the kind we see in the mirror behind the veil of Planet Earth 1.0.

Our new Planet Earth 2.0 is in its infancy. Nevertheless, it is a revealing new armature upon which a new world can be built and is being built. As an artist, my job is to confront reality and to use creativity to deal with it. Fortunately, art has partnered with life as dramatized in this work and more clearly by the aims of Data A art in general.

Furthermore, this partnership is most promising because, at the end of the day when it comes to life and the myriad of ways in which it can be lived, Nature knows best. Besides, we are growing as a group everyday and we are beginning to meet people of the caliber who can move from behind the veil and join in the creation of the daring new world that is Planet Earth 2.0.

In my next postings here, I will begin to share with you in some detail of what I know about one very remarkable idea that makes the partnership between human nature and Nature, at large, possible and how that idea makes Planet Earth 2.0 a plausible gateway to an alternative future for our world.

If you desire a printable image of "Behind the Veil of Planet Earth 1.0" click here or on the image above.

If you are curious about Francis Bacon click here.


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Green Dance

I'm illustrating today's blog with a scale model of a large outdoor sculptural work titled "Green Dance." This work explores a dialog concerning the relative value of the green mentality as awareness versus the stark reality of the green planetary mass extinction going on now.

I have often said that people would not mind doing the right thing if some one would just show them what that is.

The trouble is that our human culture does not have a component that can let us know what is the right thing. And, since the best we can do at the moment (worldwide) is to agree to disagree about what may constitute the right thing, we are nowhere.

Now, this is not the only stumbling block to any significant progress. Add to it the fact that even if we happen to overcome this impasse and finally agree on something, we would not know what to do next beyond that point. This is so because, we would have spent so much time and energy building up a better argument to support our opposing views, rather than using our time and resources to actually identify and try out workable solutions, particularly on a global scale.

That is why I called this piece the "Green Dance." For the most part our green intentions are just that, "green intentions." Because even if the solution is right in front of us, we either fail to recognize it or are not sufficiently motivated to see it. Humanity is simply not culturally equipped to take advantage of new outside-of-the-rut ideas contemporaneously.

History can back-up what I'm saying with dozens of examples of breakthrough ideas that today are commonplace. Almost all of these ideas were ideas that were summarily dismissed in their own day. Often they were dismissed because they threatened the hegemony of a status quo that was controlled by the short term ambitions of lesser contemporary models.

Now, none of what I've said is new. However, what is new is that we no longer have the luxury of waiting ten, twenty or more years to accept a solution as valid or as workable and then to begin the long process that will eventually lead to its adoption and implementation. That is a kind of waiting that we or the environment do not have anymore.

This futile "green dance" is at best a diversion that poses as progress in the face of the real urgency of the issues. Most of what needs to be done to arrest this trend is to simply accept the fact that what most of humanity has done was misguided and that what it is doing now is wrong.

Furthermore, the solutions that will come forth to deal with these problems cannot be expected to suit the life-style nor the culture which created the problems in the first place.

Therefore, the dialog becomes not so much about what we can do for us now. Rather, it is about what we are going to do to empower the next several generations so that they can come into a world where they can find the foundations of a new culture uniquely suited to them and their challenges. They will need this new culture to be solely theirs. This way they can grow up fostering first-hand those ideas that we find impossible to accept today, but that we know will be right for them and right for the world.

Planet Earth 2.0 is an idea that is taking form and that is drawing its social organizing principles from lessons already learned. These include the lessons learned from our abandonment of our relationship with the natural world, the lessons learned from our human arrogance that assumes that we are the sole proprietor of this planet and the lessons learned from our insatiable appetite to consume for profit everything including even our own children's future share.

The most profound thing that we can know for sure at this point in our history is that we cannot stop ourselves from running the planet into the ground. But, our children's children can if only we decide to allow them to do so.

Now that is the kind of Green Dance of which we can all be proud to be a part of because, as strange as it may seem at first, it is the only green dance that makes sense. And, we know it!


If you desire a printable image of "Green Dance," click here or on the image above.


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