As we relentlessly scrutinize the consumer habits of our friends and relatives during every extreme weather event, we will inevitably break the back of any resistance to the Veganism+rewilding solution to our existential crisis. With extreme fires, floods, hurricanes and droughts, Nature is signaling that Western civilization founded on consumerism and supremacism, has passed its use-by date.
The last great exploration on Earth is to learn how to live on Earth
sustainably for the foreseeable future.
The way we are living today isn’t working well as the UN has
identified three major environmental problems: biodiversity loss,
ecosystem collapse and climate change.
The Stockholm Resilience Center has identified six planetary
boundary transgressions in the life support systems of the planet:
biosphere integrity, novel entities, biogeochemical cycles, climate
change, land system change and fresh water change.
However, we know that Veganism coupled with rewilding,
Veganism+rewilding, is a feasible solution to all three major
environmental problems identified by the UN. This simple solution
also mitigates all SIX planetary boundary transgressions identified
by the Stockholm Resilience Center in 2023.
Indeed, Veganism+rewilding is an amazing solution to most of the
world’s environmental, social and spiritual challenges, in addition
to our existential crisis.
There are some who believe that this solution will not be widely
adopted until pigs fly. However, they are in the same position as
President Joe Biden last month when he was loudly proclaiming that
he will never quit his campaign for reelection.
After he was relentlessly scrutinized over every stumble in his step
and every slur in his speech, on Sunday, 21 July, 2024, President
Biden agreed to pass the torch onto Vice President Kamala Harris on
the hottest day on Earth in recorded history, exactly 108 days
before the upcoming election on Nov 5th.
Also on Sunday, 21 July, 2024, the animal agriculture industry
over-reached and caused the arrest of our Vegan superhero Capt. Paul
Watson, thereby galvanizing the Vegan community into urgent action.
Coincidence?
Perhaps, but it is also an illustration of the perfect system design
that is Nature.
As we relentlessly scrutinize the consumer habits of our friends and
relatives during every extreme weather event, we will inevitably
break the back of any resistance to the Veganism+rewilding solution
to our existential crisis.
With extreme fires, floods, hurricanes and droughts, Nature is
signaling that Western civilization founded on consumerism and
supremacism, has passed its use-by date.
It is now abundantly clear that Western Civilization’s Baconian
quest to conquer and subdue Nature, to shake her to her foundations,
cannot be sustained much longer.
In his interview with George Stephanopoulos, President Biden
provided a description of his job around minute 8,
“Not only am I campaigning (for reelection), but I am running the
world.”
At minute 16 he said,
“I am doing a hell of a lot of other things like wars around the
world, like keeping NATO (a military alliance formed in opposition
to China and Russia) together.”
In his worldview, life is just a struggle for survival necessitating
the dominance of the “superior” over the “inferior.” Hence Western
Civilization’s fixation on endless wars, perpetual growth and
competitive games.
However, life is also a rich and beautiful tapestry of spiritual
beings making a brief stopover here for an earthly experience. As an
integral part of this life community, we have a responsibility to
restore the Earth’s life support systems to a good working condition
for future generations.
Let’s recall how we got here in just the blink of an eye on a
planetary scale. Imagine the past 500,000 years of human history
condensed into 50 years.
Fifty years ago, we discovered how to control fire. Before that, we
used to eat raw foods, obviously mostly plants. Once we started
cooking with fire, we expanded the varieties of foods we could
consume. With the controlled use of fire, we fashioned implements
and weapons out of metals.
Five years ago, we formed partnerships with wolves, who became our
dogs. With their superior sense of smell, sight and hearing, dogs
enabled us to detect predators from afar to keep us safe. This
allowed us to migrate out of Africa and spread to every part of the
globe during the previous mini ice age.
In order to survive in the colder climates that we migrated into, we
started eating cooked foods and wearing the skins of dead animals.
A year ago, as the Earth warmed out of the ice age into the Holocene
era, we started agriculture almost everywhere. Our land clearing for
agriculture, especially animal agriculture, further heated up the
climate and prevented the Earth from reverting to another mini ice
age about seven months ago.
Also seven months ago, we learned to write and use carts with
wheels.
Just three weeks ago, we invented the printing press.
Just ten days ago, we invented the steam powered locomotive.
We invented airplanes and automobiles three days ago and internet
usage became widespread just yesterday.
Today, we are deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sift fact
from fiction in the vast body of knowledge that we had accumulated
over the past 5 years.
This is an astonishing pace of development. Surely, it makes perfect
sense that this happened for us to fulfill our collective role as
the thermostat species of the planet, not just to mindlessly kill
ourselves off in a planetary conflagration.
This is the motivation for us to adopt the Veganism+rewilding
solution to our existential crisis. We belong on Earth exactly as we
are.
History has repeatedly shown that when we band together for a common
cause, we make the impossible possible.
In the perfect system design that is Nature, what is good for us is
also good for the planet. When we band together to heal Nature, we
heal ourselves and when we band together to heal ourselves, we heal
Nature.
How amazing is that?
It is time for those who are clutching the levers of power and
wealth in Western civilization to loosen up and deploy resources for
the implementation of this Veganism+rewilding solution.