The world is the way it is today
because of the stories we have communicated to each other.
Every culture has a mythology that
answers the basic questions-- who are you?
What is a human being?
What's important in life?
How does change happen in the world?
Where do we come from?
Where are we going?
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One of the problems with the old story
within Western culture is that it's
perpetuated a sense of separation
between humans and the planet.
We are putting so much pressure on the environment,
so much pressure on poor people, so much
pressure on the atmosphere.
Never before has a mass industrial civilization
run on the principles of interconnectedness.
We need the perspectives of different cultures in order
to weave the story for humanity of the future,
not try to reach a single story, but figure out--
what are our common values?
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The Western world is discovering its role
on the co-creation of a new world on this planet.
It's for real change.
Not just the small changes but major changes,
systemic changes.
We have the collective intelligence
to create all the solutions we might need.
It's not just solutions out there.
It's solutions in here.
We're not going to get out of this environmental mess
by science and policy alone.
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We need to build a movement that connects ecology,
social justice, and cosmology using the power of dream,
the power of story, the power of art, and the power of action.
Anything that anybody does that is for life
automatically makes you a revolutionary for our species.
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