We have a system that is deeply narcissistic - the consumer sort of capitalist culture. It's all about me and now and what do I need that just makes you feel a bit better with all the stress. But in other healthy cultures, they have a real sense of ancestor and a sense of the next seven generations.
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Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.
It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.
The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.
I also personally think - as do many others - that a shift on consciousness is needed toward one where we understand that we are in a relationship with the earth and all living beings, that we have agency. That life is worth fighting for.
When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.
We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth.