3. Re-Greening Our Hearts (Part 3) A Practical Path for a Successful Planet If you have not read Part 1, please read it first here If you have not read Part 2, please read it first here 20th October 2011 By Jack Adam Weber - Guest Writer for Wake Up World To a great extent, each of us can choose what we consume, depending on the resources available to us.
The talking heads of Big Business justify their mania and lack of soul by appealing to the very fear they create. Rather than promote healing, sustainability, and self-empowerment in a mutually interdependent package, Big Business promotes unchecked capitalism by promoting and glorifying this external system of insatiable desire through the cycle of acquiring more and more, the buying and too prompt burying of their cheap toys and gadgets, affording them windfall profits while ordinary folks become more inwardly and outwardly impoverished. Apart from circumstances over which we have no control, we are not victims.
Join Wake Up World's Ever Evolving Social Communities. 1.the Re-Greening Of Our Hearts (Part 1) A Practical Philosophy for a Successful Planet “A sacred choice is one that does not seek to compensate for a wound, but to heal it.”
`~Rick Vassalla~ 14th October 2011 By Jack Adam Weber - Guest Writer for Wake Up World Here we are in the thick of Occupy Wall Street, with the movement and its message spreading worldwide, loud and clear: No more collusion by government and Big Business. In the first weeks of the ongoing Fukushima disaster I read too many editorials describing the choice between a nuclear or more sustainable future as hinging on the monetary cost to multinational companies, government, and taxpayers. I have reached my limit of political puppet talk to distract attention from and justify the destruction of life on Earth. We need a new paradigm for living and doing business on Earth, not just an adjustment of the current system.
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to loose. 2. The Re-Greening of Our Hearts (Part 2) A Practical Path for a Successful Planet If you have not read Part 1, please read it first here 17th October 2011 By Jack Adam Weber - Guest Writer for Wake Up World Promising parts for a new vision of ecological sustainability are already afoot.
India, Bolivia, Ecuador and districts in the state of Pennsylvania and throughout New England have enacted Earth-centered constitution declaring, for example, the inalienable rights of “natural communities and ecosystems,” to possess the same rights to survival and “living well” as humans. Unfortunately, it is still legal to “make money” (especially gobs of it) without being truly accountable for the negative side-effects of production. In contrast, an Eco-centric paradigm favors economic choices based on what might allow humanity to survive with a standard of living worth being alive for: clean air, water, food, good health, happy and healthy children in birthright possession of their full mental capacities and with their limbs all in tact.