What Is Ecological Civilization?

Crisis, Hope, and the Future of the Planet

By: Philip Clayton, Wm. Andrew Schwartz

Narrated by: Seth Clayton

The present trajectory of life on this planet is unsustainable, and the underlying causes of our environmental crisis are inseparable from our social and economic systems. The massive inequality between the rich and the poor is not separate from our systems of unlimited growth, the depletion of natural resources, the extinction of species, or global warming. As climate predictions continue to exceed projections, it is clear that hopelessness is rapidly becoming our worst enemy.

What is needed - urgently - is a new vision for the flourishing of life on this planet, a vision the authors are calling an ecological civilization. This book explores the idea of ecological civilization by asking eight key questions about it and drawing answers from relational philosophies, the ecological sciences, systems thinking and network theory, and the world’s religious and spiritual traditions. It concludes that a genuinely ecological civilization is not a utopian ideal, but a practical way to live. To recognize this, and to begin to take steps to establish it, is the foundation for realistic hope.

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This is the big picture, clarified.

A vision of a world civilization worth working towards with comprehensive coverage of so many aspects of our current world order that need to fundamentally change to grow that world, an Ecological Civilization. A call to work together to clarify where we want to head and then to seize that as an alternative.