This newsletter was distributed on June 24, 2021. 

Dear Friends,

For the last few years, I’ve been engaged in the most amazing discussions of my life with the most amazing colleagues from all parts of the world. These discussions link ancient indigenous wisdom, contemporary social analysis, and rapidly advancing frontiers of science. COVID-19 has imposed deep new suffering, thrust it into previously privileged communities, and exposed deep systemic failure in ways difficult to ignore. Those of us who were sounding the alarm and calling for deep change are now listening to and learning from one another in ways I have never previously experienced. As we’ve explored alternative future scenarios, we’ve found some common ground in a vision of an Ecological Civilization.

Drawing on the work and insights of many colleagues and from these ongoing conversations, I recently wrote “Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence” in an effort to connect the dots and more widely engage a deep, serious conversation about the causes of the existential crises we face, while bringing a message of hope and possibility  Focused on the interdependence of life, it builds from the African concept of Ubuntu – “I am because you are” – and calls for the development of a supporting life-centric eco’-nomics to displace the failed money-centric ego’-nomics that has led humans so badly astray.

This is an unprecedented moment of opportunity to vision and create a world of peace, material sufficiency, and spiritual abundance for all. Everything I do is now focused on the human transition to an Ecological Civilization.

If you received this message, you are likely engaged in advancing the conversation, doing the work, and living the new eco’-nomics and an Ecological Civilization into being. Feel free to use this paper, its content, and the additional resources below in any way you believe may be useful in your work to draw attention to and help move us forward on the path to an Ecological Civilization.

Thank you for your work in the world,
David

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