"Our relationship with the natural world has reached a tipping point. The next five or six years are going to be the most important in the history of human civilization. That's a strong statement, but:
"We've been borrowing from the future, and the debt has fallen due. The science says we have physically entered a period of great change, a synchronized, related crash of the economy and ecosystem. The Great Disruption will ultimately take human society to a higher evolutionary state. We have the opportunity to build a society that represents our highest capacities... that works with rather than against nature. This crisis represents what may be a 'once in a civilization' opportunity for a step change in human evolution, but one driven consciously rather than biologically. We are the people we've been waiting for. This is the time."
Paul Gilding, The Great Disruption
The grail is resilience, enhancing our ability to adapt to dramatic change and restructure our ways of living in concert with natural systems and with respect for human dignity.
In addition to our environmental challenges, on a social level we can't afford not to engage all of our human capacity. We can no longer devalue people of color, women, people according to age or ability. We actually need everyone to step into leadership, to transform our culture and this time."
~~~~ Bioneers Board and Staff
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