I believe that we are part of a movement that is greater, and deeper, and broader than we ourselves know, or can know.
It flies under the radar of the media, by and large.
It is non-violent. It is grassroots.
It has no cluster bombs, no armies and no helicopters.
It has no central ideology.
A male vertebrate is not in charge.

The unnamed movement is the most diverse the world has ever seen.
The very word movement, I think, is too small to describe it.
No one started this worldview.
No one is in charge of it.
There is no orthodoxy.

It is global, classless, unquenchable and tireless.
The shared understanding is arising spontaneously from different economic sectors, cultures, regions and cohorts.
It is growing and spreading, worldwide, with no exception.
It has many roots, but primarily the origins are: indigenous culture, the environment, and social justice movements.
Those three sectors and their sub sectors are intertwining, morphing and enlargening.

This is no longer,or simply, about resources or factions or injustice.
This is fundamentally a civil rights movement, a human rights movement.
This is a democracy movement.
It is the coming world.

We do not know how big this movement is.
It may be 250,000 groups. It may be 500,000 groups.
It’s marked by kinship, and community, and symbiosis.
It is Pachamama. It’s Mama!
It’s the Earth, talking back, ‘Wakinup!’

It’s so new, we can’t recogniseit.
We’re familiar with armies, and wars, and governments,
and churches and religions.
But there’s no precedent for what we’re doing.
What you’re creating is completely unknown.
It’s everywhere.
There’s no centre.
There’s no one spokesperson.
It’s in every country and city on Earth.
It is within every tribe, every race, every culture, and every ethnic group in the world.
This is the first time on Earth, that a powerful, non-ideological movement has arisen.

And during the span of the 20th century, big ideologies were worshipped, like religions.
They dominated our beliefs.
They dominated us with socialism, capitalism, and communism.
In the words of Ed Hunt, “Ideologies stalked the Earth, clad in armour.
They fought for the control of our minds, and the lands, and it wasn’t pretty.”
We were told that salvation would be found in the domination of a single system.

This is where salvation will be found.
We know that as biologists.
We know that as community organisers.
We know that as ecologists. It’s found in diversity.
This movement is humanity’s immune response to resist and heal political disease, economic infection and ecological corruption, caused by ideologies.

So it is up to us to decide.
How will we be? Who will we be?
This is what it is we’re building: the capacity to respond.
It is about possibilities and solutions.
Humankind knows what to do.