For All Life outline

Outline for For All Life.

1. Context
   • context
2. Everything is connected, yet we act as though we can thrive independent of others.
   • problem
3. Discussion
   • Forces
     • If we were to try and summarize the attitude behind the idea of nation states it might be “security and prosperity for our people.” The implication is that our nation is a group of people banding together in competition with the rest of the world.
     • There is an attitude reflected in the phrase “humans first.” Those who use the phrase are usually talking about how their needs (for a job or a specific government contract) should come before the concerns of an endangered animal or plant. What they’re really saying is “me first.” If we look at it from the perspective of all humanity, now and for generations to come, saving a plant or animal species is putting humans first. We need our planet to be healthy to survive, so saving it is largely a selfish act.
     • “There’s no private salvation: I can’t be who I am without you being what you are; I can’t be safe unless you’re safe; I can’t be healed unless you heal; I don’t have a final, sort of separate refuge where I can go and be redeemed and leave you out.” (Joanna Macy, Joanna Macy and the Great Turning, 3:41)
   • Work to ensure that 100% of humanity benefits from this greater livingness.
   • That implies that we can no longer benefit some at the expense of others.
   • We can no longer afford the idea of us versus them.
   • And that includes Nature and our planet Earth.
   • This is only possible in a world where Abundance is the norm.
   • Therefore:
4. Solution
   • solution
5. Posttext
   • posttext