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The value of life
We are living at a critical time in our collective, planetary, history. We know that our fragile world is undergoing massive changes to its life systems. Scientists warned us that we may face extinction due to these transitions in the life systems. The timeline is well within the lifetime of most humans alive today. We know we are facing the worst crisis for life on the planet. According to the Center for Biological Diversity:
We’re currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural “background” rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at up to 1,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century.
We also know this crisis is related to the climate crisis, which is of our creation. It is our experiment that we are running on the atmosphere of the planet. It started with the industrial revolution and has accelerated since. In our quest for wealth, we are creating more trouble than it’s worth, and some of it comes to fundamental western values that are tenets of capitalism and our religious views. When one speaks of this, one needs to confront Dominionism as…