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THE GAIA ATLAS

OF

PLANET MANAGEMENT

For Today’s Caretakers of Tomorrow’s World

Gen. Ed. Norman Myers

THE PRACTICALITY OF HOLDING THE CREATIVE TENSION BETWEEN GLOBAL CONTEXT AND

THE IMPORTANCE OF JOB CONTENT

AN INTEGRATED CODE CONTAINING MANY

COLLECTED CODES

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INTRODUCTIOIN

• The Fragile miracle

• Accelerating evolution

• Latecomers to evolution

• The long Shadow

• Crisis or challenge

EVERY PAGE ILLUSTRATES HUMANS IN SITU, THEIR CO-OPERATIVE

ACHIEMENTS & THEIR GLOBAL IMPACT

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LAND• Potential – Fertile soil –Green potential – Global Forest –

Tropical forests - Humans on the land – World crop lands – Grazing herds – Global larder.

• Crisis – Disappearing soil - Shrinking forests – destroying the protector – Encroaching desert – Hunger & glut.

• Management – Cash crop factor – Global supermarket – Harvested forests –Forests of the future – Managing the soil – Green revolution – Chinese model – a Culture in balance – Towards new agriculture

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OCEAN

• Potential – World ocean system – Living seas – Vital margins – global shoal – Ocean technology – natural land/sea barriers – stable seasons

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• Crisis – Empty nets – exposed shore lines - Polluted oceans – habitat destruction – ocean possession, whose is it ?

• Management – Harvesting the sea – Cleanup of the oceans – managing the poles – Laws of the sea – Future ocean as the ‘Sea around us’

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ELEMENTS• Potential – Global powerhouse –The energy store –

Climate asset – Freshwater reserves – Mineral reserves• Crisis – Oil depletion – Fuel and water crisis –

Greenhouse effect – Invisible threat – Pollution on a preposterous scale – Toxicity widening –Nuclear dilemma.

• Management – Energy efficiency – Climate sensibility – Waste into wealth recycling – Clean water for all – end usurpation of Intellectual capital – UN oversight accepted

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EVOLUTION• Potential – Life pool – Life style strategies in rhythm with

nature - Partners in evolution –Genetic resources- Keys to the wild - Bio-mimicry in the housekeeping of the planet – Human stewardship

• Crisis – Irreplaceable heritage – Destruction of diversity – Mono-cultures spreading –Genetic erosion – Enter the lonely planet

• Management – conserving the wild – Harvesting wildlife in bio-mimicry –preserve genetic resource –New laws and conventions – precautionary principle operates – conservation rules

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HUMANKIND• Potential – People potential in dignity and co-operation –

Contribution ethic prevails – Homo ‘truly’ sapiens – Sense of earth identity uniting humanity and earth life

• Crisis – Numbers game winning – Work famine and indignity – mounting sickness and stress –Literacy chasm – Outcastes, refugees, homeless and asylum seekers

• Management – Managing numbers – Voice of women – Health for all – Universal basic income – Economics as if people, animals and plants matter to each other – A poly- cultural world community - Inter-religious Insight grows as a spiritual imperative

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CIVILISATION• Potential – Urban and rural sanity prevails – Just

trading occurs – Communications convey value – world market thrives on stable currencies – World wealth that is world health

• Crisis – Chaos in cities – Monopoly media control – Corporate hegemony – Monetocracy mounts – Market tremors – Rich/poor divide widens – Poverty bomb – climate change accelerates

• Management – Urban regeneration – Co-operation rules – Risks and rewards are shared – Technology responsible to sustainability and justice.

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MANAGEMENT

• Potential – Family of nations Reluctant Internationalists – Voice of the earth is heard – Voice of community is heard – A just democracy – Psyche the size of the earth grips all

• Crisis – many breaking points – Towards a violent planet –Cost of militarism –A million Hiroshimas – Bang or whimper to end ? – Market assumptions untenable

• Under New Management – Great transition – Coming to systems sensibilities – Safeguarding the fragile miracle – All the creative tension of a matrix.

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THE FOLLOWING 7 SLIDES SPRANG FROM DIALOGUES

AT VARIOUS MEETINGS WHERE THE SLIDES HAD EVOKED DISCUSSION

THEY MAY OR MAY NOTHELP IN ANY USE YOU MAKE OF

THE SLIDES

REMBER ALWAYS THAT THE ATLAS ITSELF IS ILLUSTRATED PROVOCATIVELY

ON EVERY PAGEBRINGING ALL THE ISSUES INTO

STARK RELIEF AND LOCALATION.

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COVENANT• Potential – ‘The earth is the Lord’s’- Every thing under the

rainbow is gifted – Generous Being – Wholeness as the Union of all Opposites -

• Crisis – Institutional Religion ousts faith – innocent arrogance of humanity – Hubris replaces Élan – Usury and greed creep in – The God of the Market rules - The Warbow is over the Rainbow.

• Management – New Paradigm emerges - Earth identity acknowledged – Ecological humility grows – Frisson and Élan thrive – Economics assumes bio-mimicry - Replenishable living blossoms -

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RESPONSES • Everyone acts in the spirit of their ‘psyche the

size of the earth’ and of their eco-humble discovery of themselves in their location, known in the coherence of the planet.

• Co-operation becomes the mode of all enterprise and risks and rewards are shared. Confederation encourages mutual awareness.

• The ordinate issues of Monetary Reform, Just Land Distribution, Basic Income & Constraint on Corporations ensures wise contribute to a sustainable earth & peaceful human society

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GAIAN EARTH-FULLNESS

• ‘The mode in which the earth’s living matter, air, oceans, and land surface form a complex system which can be conceived as an organism and which has the capacity to keep the planet a fit place for thriving life.’

from Gaia by James Lovelock

• God gave Noah the rainbow sign… no more water, the fire next time’

Baldwin

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MANY STARTING POINTS – ONE CORE

CORE OFPRIOR UNITY

CORE OFPRIOR

COMMUNITY

GAIAN INTEGRITY AND COHERENCE

LIVING EARTH

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Psyche the size of the universe

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DISTORTED PERSONALITY

THE INTEGRITY OF BEING SUFFERS FROM EXCESS OF POWER TO ANY PART

| Poverty is the frustration of potentiality

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FROM WITHIN WHICH EVER DISCIPLINE OR FAITH TRADITION YOU START

Law – Theology - Politics - Human rights - Philosophy - Land – War – Poverty - Environment

- Gaian Identity - Co-operation - Water - PensionsBanking – Tax - Community Development

 

AT THE CORE OF EVERY ISSUE AFFECTING

INCLUSVE JUSTICE LIE

LANDMONEY

BASIC INCOMEJUST CORPORATE LAW

PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY