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We have to hear that question from them, now. Because, what we take for
granted today, might just not be here for our children.
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Planet By Design
(the heart of the manifesto)
Our imperative is to first imagine, and then act to design a planet where:
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Imagine
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Green Action: It’s Time
Assert that all of us need fundamental changes in our values, attitudes, and ways of living
Declare the 21st century is our defining moment to begin this transformation
Affirm our responsibility to each another, our community, and future generations
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Getting Personal
“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our
only legitimate hope of survival.” Wendell Berry
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The Problem
7 Billion, Desperate Hungry People
And now?
Since the Industrial Revolution and our dependence on oil, the worldwide human population
has skyrocketed from around one billion in 1800, to more than SEVEN billion today.
We focus on the technologies that make the highest profits - without care for the
consequences, and this has unwittingly handed us huge influence over the entire biosphere.
It has become clear that our planet is facing its 6th Mass Extinction, but something is different
this time. This time, WE are the cause of the mass extinction. Although scientists disagree
whether the problem arouse 10,000 years ago when we started expanding our domain, 200
years ago with the Industrial Revolution or in more recent times, one thing is increasingly clear.
Species are going extinct, and it is happening at an ever increasing speed.
How do we kill so many species? Through continual and escalating deforestation, over-hunting,
over-fishing, pollution and the decrease of natural habitat. Right now there only about 10 million
species left, and they live at the mercy of our actions.
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The Problem
Your right to pollute and consume:
Like it or not, your own personal consumption contributes to all of this, as well as to the
destruction of your own habitat. So why do we each do this? Because each of us innately
believes we have a right to pollute and consume. Coupled with a denial that any of it makes an
impact.
Choose to look:
You might never think about this, hardly any of us do. Or you might think that none of this really
makes a difference. Hey, today looks pretty much the same as yesterday, doesn’t it. But when
you DO consider all of this, when you DO choose to see what you and the rest of us are doing
to our planet, every day, doesn’t it make you think?
STOP... I know who you are. You are one of the tiny, but extraordinary powerful elite. How do I
know? Because you are reading this.
Out of more than 7 billion humans, about 29% have Internet access, but only 1% actually have
a computer. I bet you do. And how many of those who have one would really think about how
they were going to make a difference. You do. You’re 1 in a million.
You’d only have read this far if, deep down, you knew you could make that difference.
But you’ve just been scared. Scared because you were alone.
Well you’re not alone. Not anymore.
Do you know how many people it takes to really make something happen that has an impact?
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Taking Responsibility
If you get discouraged, remind yourself...
“To leave the world a bit better ... to know that one life has breathed
easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today, I will acknowledge what I could not take responsibility for before:
That it’s beauty lies in it’s diversity, and I am thankful for the gift it offers me every day when I
wake up: the warmth from the Sun, the air that I breathe, the water that I drink, the food that I
eat and the earth that I walk on.
Deep down, I realise the things I want most are: clean, fresh air to breathe; easy access to
clean, fresh water every day; safe, healthy and delicious food to sustain me; and the
confidence and freedom to travel wherever I want to go, with a warm loving home to return to.
It is now clear to me, that my future is forever linked to the success and proliferation of my
planet. I also realize that it is the same for all my friends, my family, my children and my
grandchildren.
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First, let’s confirm what’s been going on:
1. For over 100,000 years there was less an 1 billion of us
2. In less than 100 years there are 7 billion of us, while over 50,000
species have been wiped out (1000 X the natural extinction rate).
Co-incidence that our population & extinctions are both going up?
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3. 1930, at the time our population exploded, so did oil consumption
Increase in the number of millions of barrels of oil per day globally
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4. And an increase in global temperatures
Increase the average global temperatures and carbon dioxide levels
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It’s Your Move
The secret ingredient is you, and your desire to actually do something about it. To take action,
to believe that it’s worthwhile, to confront what feels like a risk, but really isn’t. The secret
ingredient is to ignore excuses, abandon procrastination, stop looking for proof, and to trust
what feels right in your heart.
But don’t settle for the status quo. Make something happen.
Right now:
The powers that currently rule over our world would also never publish and encourage this
message to spread. But you can.
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Now We’re Working Together
Your next step to make a difference:
Do you want to be part of this?
To help change our planet for the better?
To help create the future we have envisioned here?
Just download the free eBook that shows you how to conserve energy with simple strategies
and ideas that at the same time save you money. It’s good for you, as well as our planet!
To get started, register your support and get the energy saving guide.
Go here:
http://www.greenecostarter.com
Remember, even the smallest changes can make the biggest difference.
You can make that difference.
Get ready…
We’ve nearly finished building a new online platform where anyone with a green project can
launch, raise awareness and get the backing to make their project a mainstream reality.
“Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were
you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you
knew the glaciers were melting.”
Martin Sheen
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