{"id":1481,"date":"2017-12-31T13:17:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T12:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investinpeace.tssef.se\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2017-12-31T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T12:17:16","slug":"making-peace-with-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Making Peace with the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Christian Wahl,\u00a0Glocal educator, activist and consultant, is a leading proponent of Peace with the Earth and Designing systems to foster Peace.<\/em> In Daniel’s latest book,\u00a0Designing Regenerative Cultures<\/a>\"\",\u00a0he outlines the need for a new Earth laws, the\u00a0kind of laws and policies that would facilitate the transition to regenerative cultures.<\/p>\n

Below is an excerpt from a subchapter from\u00a0Designing Regenerative Cultures<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0published by Triarchy Press, 2016.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0\u00a0Making Peace with the Earth<\/a>\"\",Vandana Shivaexplores how the narrative of separation is a kind of \u201ceco-apartheid\u201d that causes human beings to be at war with the Earth and each other. She reviews the root causes of this war against nature and shows that a \u201cdestructive Anthropocene\u201d is not the only possible future ahead, if we address the structural systemic conditions that are driving water wars, climate wars forest wars, and other resource wars.<\/p>\n

Exploring the situation in India and globally, Dr. Shiva argues that we have designed hunger into the system via international trade agreements formulated under the control of multinational corporations. Shiva warns of the many pitfalls associated with the use of GMOs and certain types of synthetic biology.<\/p>\n

We have to ask important questions to ensure that our approaches to creating a \u2018bio-economy\u2019 are not simply an \u201cindustrialization of life\u201d but maintain and create real \u201cbiodiversity economies\u201d (Shiva, 2012: 143). The proliferation of industrial, petrochemical agriculture and GMO monocultures is a \u201cbiodiversity war\u201d and the suppression of small farmers and eradication of local variety is a \u201cseed war\u201d (p.148).<\/p>\n

To create regenerative \u2018living cultures\u2019, lasting peace within the human family and peace with the Earth, we need laws and policies based on careful deliberation of the following questions (based on Shiva, 2012):<\/p>\n