Earthday 2022: Life Force
We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension. But this energy, in an ultimate sense, is ours not by domination but by invocation.
About the Program
On Earth Day 2022, the Center for Earth Ethics collaborated with Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky and The Climate Museum to host an event aimed at fostering ecological thought and action.
The event sought to harness untapped creative power: the ways of thinking, doing and being that our commodified, globalized, fossil-fueled society tends to dominate and devour. Earth Day: Life Force was an opportunity to regenerate creativity while working toward a viable climate future.
We live in climate emergency, yet we are more equipped than ever to work together. We can foster communities that celebrate differences while never losing sight of our common humanity. We can dispel the illusion of separateness from nature. We can look to our roots, the Earth, the elements and all the interconnected web of life around that make our own lives possible. We can reimagine the economy to put a halt to relentless extractivism and exploitation. Together, we can become an unstoppable counterforce to the stunted thinking that has hampered efforts to avert ecological breakdown.
We spent the afternoon tending the best of the human spirit, which is connected with the life force that animates our planet.
We tapped into the creative energy that flows through each of us. We found refuge from the overload of information and analysis that can leave us depleted and exhausted. We gathered artists, poets, thought leaders and climate scientists who are reimagining and recasting how we experience the greatest challenge of our time.
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