A very simple blog post today and possibly for the foreseeable future if you choose to engage with me. The title of my blog is ‘Thoughts on what it really means for humanity to live sustainably.’ I have written for over 8 years about Sustainable Living and offered many ideas, often iconoclastic, some down the rabbit hole, some seemingly on the surface yet apparently still opaque to many finding themselves unable to let go the things that trap the world in market-economic hyper-consumerism. I have also given you my thoughts as they flowed through me about a counter-culture that promotes sustainability as a way of life and not just a fix for our environmental sins from the modern materialistic way of living.
In my blog now, let me try a new direction. I asked in a survey question that is a part of the blog about what you the reader have questions about but I haven’t gotten a response yet. That puzzles me. So, rather than me just going on and on, something I could easily do, I would like to address what you, the reader, have questions and concerns about in creating a sustainable world.
There is always the comments section at the bottom of each of my posts – these are confidential and I only post those that are relevant. There is also my blog email address – richardjurin@outlook.com– where you can ask me anything. I tend to cover principles that are applicable everywhere – hence the title of my book Sustainable Living – A New Vision for Health, Happiness, and Prosperity. Please let me know where in the world you live so I can try and focus my answers to your questions to ‘living well” for your area.
The last lines on another blog on which I have contributed are: “As educators we are fully aware of the battle for peoples’ attention in a media circus driven by global mega-corporate media systems. Scholars of media, law, economics, and many other disciplines, have documented the results of globalized control of information – fragmented media ecosystems that intensify polarization, separation, and compliance with corporate thinking that continue to wage destruction on the planet to maintain profits over everything else. Disinformation spreads not because people are uninformed, but because emotionally charged narratives travel faster than verified ones. The result is exhaustion rather than persuasion. When citizens stop trusting any source, they stop demanding consistency from the powers-that-be.
So, the path of a sustainable future lies with us. How? We localize and collaborate neighborhood by neighborhood, and spread a new worldview region by region, all the while deconstructing the old as we rebuild the new. This is not a simple pledge-money to a cause, but a commitment to create a sustainable world from the wreck of the old. All of us are the ones we are waiting for. If we do not create the change, do not be surprised at the ‘Brave New World’ that the current global Powers-that-be are leading us into.
“The planet doesn’t care about your political beliefs. The laws of nature don’t bend to human stubbornness. Either we adapt to a world without endless extraction, pollution, and destruction, or nature will remind us that we are not in control” Powwows.com.
So, this is your time – what do you want to know about in order for you to co-create a Sustainable future?
Peace and Love, Richard
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