Mother Earth is Not for Sale

Gandhi: "The Earth has enough for everyone's needs, but not for a few people's greed."

AUTHOR: Dagmar Reinhard based on a Navdanya International post.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Gerhard Altmann

The Earth, Gaia, Terra Madre is a living planet whose rich biodiversity of life has evolved over billions of years and sustains all life. It is neither dead matter nor raw material to be exploited and degraded.

Care for the Earth, and all life is our ethical and ecological responsibility.
Earth Care is the economy of life. The word 'economics' comes from two Greek words, 'eco' meaning home and 'nomos' meaning accounts. Our only home with its perplexing ecosystems sustains us with oxygen to breathe, water, food, clothing, shelter, and medicine. NOW, in a period of ecological and social collapse and disintegration, healing and regenerating the Earth is the basis for surviving and restoring the human future.

Care of the Earth regenerates nature's resources, biodiversity, and economy.
Fossil fuels and oil are destroying Earth's living ecosystems, resulting in the loss of life-sustaining biodiversity, resulting in dis-ease, the destruction of forests, and the extinction of plant and animal life, propelling us to extinction. Respecting Earth's finite resources is fundamental to an economy of care and caring humanity.

Human intelligence, autonomy, freedom, and rights
Humans have been co-creating with the Earth, her biodiversity, and each other forever. This was forgotten since the onset of industrialization, which we must now reclaim.

High-frequency technology and digitalization are numbing our brains and intelligence and eroding our inherent right to choose. Big data, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and robotics are now imaging a future of farming without farmers, manufacturing without workers, education, and information without teachers, and health without doctors.

Economies of care are based on reclaiming our minds, autonomy, and creative potential to preserve our freedoms and rights to work in service to the Earth, our communities, and future generations. Economies of care stimulate creative freedom, justice, and cohesion.

Regenerating community
Life is a sensitive and caring communal phenomenon in society as in nature. Communities are where local economies of sustenance, health, and well-being converge and regenerate. Economies of care create harmony and prosperity. Relationships woven through respect and reciprocity cultivate creativity and well-being.

Reclaiming the commons
Economies of care are based on reclaiming the commons and public goods by caring for the Earth and sharing the Earth's common resources: the commons of seed and biodiversity, water and land, food and nourishment; and the public goods and services that societies have evolved through responsibilities and common rights: knowledge, democracy, health, education, energy, transport, and shelter.

Read more: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mother-earth-healthy-society/