HR!Day472 - Endangered I: Ecocide: We are Killing Our Home
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Today begins a five-day program on our Endangered Planet. We are in danger of committing ecocide — the killing of our home.
We are a species that has lost its way and have only this decade to take meaningful steps to course correct. The scientific data and many global scientific leaders have determined it is already too late. The outdated and powerful systems and institutions—legal, energy, financial, supply chain, and political—prevent the needed changes. Change is imperative, but where will it come from? These systems and institutions are, if not causing, accelerating the sixth mass extinction. Today's simultaneous and multifaceted challenges are unprecedented, yet political and industry leaders are moving forward as if it is “business as usual”. The systems they inhabit and perpetuate are seemingly too powerful to affect the needed changes. There is a growing global movement to make ecocide an international crime working within the system.
Conveners:
Tom Eddington, Founder, Endangered Global, and George Cappannelli, Founder, Age Nation
Presenters:
- Jojo Mehta co-founded Stop Ecocide in 2017, alongside barrister and legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins, to support the establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court. She has seen the remarkable growth of this movement (teams in 15 countries, websites in nine languages) while coordinating between legal developments, diplomatic traction and public narrative. She is Chair of the charitable Stop Ecocide Foundation and convenor of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide chaired by Philippe Sands QC and Dior Fall Sow. Jojo is a graduate of Oxford and London Universities and has a background in communications, entrepreneurship and on-the-ground environmental campaigns.
- Charles Eisenstein is an American speaker and author. His work covers a wide range of topics including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. Key themes include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture. He believes that our global culture is immersed in a destructive “story of separation” and his work is to present an alternative “story of interbeing”.
Recommended Resources
https://www.stopecocide.earth/spread-the-word
Charles Eisenstein, The Ascent of Humanity Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics https://charleseisenstein.org
Co-convener:
- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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