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We all share a set of responsibilities for our sustainable natural human presence on Earth
Every human being is a unique manifestation of living nature. We consist of clustered molecules and a delicate ecosystem of millions of interacting microscopic entities that are our symbiotic life support. When we pollute our environment, we pollute ourselves, with all kinds of nasty consequences. Equally, disconnecting ourselves from our natural core values and corresponding responsibilities, produces all kinds of mental disorders. Mental disorders that produce all the problems in the human world today (competition, aggression, hunger, refugees, narcissism, suicides, negative stress, excessive consumerism, greed, social segregation, discrimination, etc).
To overcome this we need to:
- Acknowledge our shared (inter-human and institutional) responsibility for our core natural human values: integral health (physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, environmental), safety (including respect for each other and our natural environment), awareness (learning together), shared responsibility (seeing our sustainable existence as a co-creation, not a cost or financial liability) and fulfillment of our basic needs (water, air, food, warmth).
- Create prioritized local, interdisciplinary communities to address these core natural human values together.
- If none of the local silos takes the initiative, ask STIR for help. We can help set things up.
Global co-creation of the Laws of Nature Manifesto
With the involvement of experts from the Netherlands, Germany, India, USA, Belgium, Singapore, Indonesia, Nigeria and Ireland, the Laws of Nature Manifesto was established. The idea behind this mission is that serious changes need to be made in our decision making, at all levels and in all silos of society. The thinking and proven handling of Sustainocracy has been used as source of inspiration, both in establishing the list of natural values, as in one of the videos showing the practical way of taking shared responsibility (AiREAS). The entire movement was initiated and guided by Eugen Oetringer.
The Manifesto represents a positive invitation to all leaders in society to join this way of thinking and take personal and collective benefit as well as recognition for the choice.
Breaking with 10000 years of history
10000 years ago humankind developed the desire to own and control things. This had disastrous effects on our psychology, taking out the worst of our behavior. It may arguably be a phase in our human development, necessary to learn to deal with our impulses. In our current era this mentality has brought us on the verge of societal collapse and sincere doubts about the sustainable perspectives of our species, despite all technologies and science at hand. In a recent publication about Place Based Sustainability, an article was included about the breaking with this history of societal conditioning around financial growth and status. Instead of developing the mainstream attitude, I personally decided to step out and define my own human values based reality. A reality that would become Sustainocracy over time. The article also describes the process of the city of Eindhoven to define its own authenticity and identity as a city.
We see this break away attitude appear more and more, also in regional development, where quality of life gains in importance rather than just financial growth. In this short video I describe the painful human phase of greed, suppression, misuse of people and resources, warfare, etc that we are leaving behind us. Instead we define our authenticity and identity as wellness driven species, integrating ourselves back in a symbiotic way with ourselves and our natural environment.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 