A Convenient Truth

Looking for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth? You’ve come to the right place.

Some say “We don’t have to radically change the way we live to avert disaster”, but :

An ecological life is a joyful life – an intelligent life, a playful, healthy, meaningful life.

Beyond Live Earth:

Live Earth, complete with educational announcements every 15 minutes, focused attention and made it hip to be green – even entertainers only wanting to be ‘cool’ don’t want to look stupid, not ‘with it’, and irrelevant, so they are learning – competing to be smart and authentic about caring for the planet. Performers acknowledged the hypocrisy of the music industry acting as prophets for environmental responsibility. Seeds were given to the audience, who may plant something for the first time in their lives. Disposable bottles and cans were banned. But the raucous sensationalism of many performers did nothing to evolve our culture to appreciating nature or gardening or ecological living. As Roger Daltry of The Who said, “The last thing the world needs is another rock concert.” (Still I acknowledge Metallica and The Beastie Boys were worth every watt.) And while the educational campaign and the pledges we could sign online were effective, they focused on ‘simple ways to save the world without changing your life’ – they didn’t tap the joy of transforming your life to become truly ecological.

In an ecological economy, people get what they really want – not a product, but abilities that render those products obsolete. Consumerism has been rendered obsolete because we find the ‘tools of production’ are within – i.e. we can playfully create what we thought we had to buy.

Eureka! & Hallelujah!

Have you discovered you don’t need to violate your values to survive? I don’t need to beget harmful by-products in order to eat. I can get 50% of my diet from lentils and sprouts. I don’t need to wash greasy pots, plates and cutlery, I don’t need to cook most foods, I don’t need an oven, I almost don’t need a stove or a microwave or a fridge. With an intelligent design, I don’t need to work to keep organizing mess, because my home is a self-organizing system. Garden-focused homes – homes where the ‘life’ of the home is in the garden, homes designed as habitats within ecosystems, complete with edible landscaping indoors and out – where I am an element in the ecosystem and I do a daily dance of making love with the garden / I move with efficiency and power to maximize the productivity of my factory – these homes could be the biggest growth industry. They are symbols of intelligence – they are what engineer’s wet dreams are made of.

What do you want?: - to work out in a gym or to work out by dancing or wilderness-trekking? - to have a car or to have your life so well designed that you don’t need a car? - to garden and create fine food or shop and eat fast food? (Imagine the other.) - to watch yet another drama or to imagine, understand and play? - to change wilderness into paved constructions or to change our imagination and skills so we can thrive in the wilderness, or to design ecosystem-integrated homes and gardens?

We have been enacting a story that counts us as enemies of nature – that nature needs a ruler. The same story is manifest in all oppression and violence. Systems of control emerge: incentives – financial, physical, social and spiritual. In a world of diverse desires and beliefs, can life be a collective creation?

The irresistible revolution:

We don’t need to ‘seize the tools of production’, as the Communist Manifesto proclaimed.
This is the revolution everyone wants:
Which would you prefer: a game of golf or a walk in the woods and a swim in a stream?
What do you want: cops and locks and concealed weapons,
or a world where we don’t need to be shifty-eyed, fearful of theft and violence?

I Had a Dream:

I lost my faith in this dream. My dream became a nightmare.
But our dreams are being revived. I have a dream.

As Martin Luther King Jr said:

I’m not worried tonight, I’m not fearing any man.
I’ve been to the mountaintop and I’ve seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you, but we as a people will get there.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

On the other hand,
If God’s vision becomes real, it may well be because we accept death – as natural, as part of God’s design (yes, contrary to the Bible), and
because we accept that nature doesn’t need us.
Perhaps we are called to be stewards of nature, to improve upon laissez-faire nature, to be God’s gardeners,
but we can only garden when we honour that nature doesn’t need us to restore it.
Then we can work with nature,
and experience ecosystems flow.

 

Links:

• www.CaregiversOfThePlanet.org
• www.CollectiveCreation.org
• www.InspiredEconomies.com
• www.ImagoNation.org
• www.SexWithGod.org
• www.LiveEarth.org

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