Universal Renewal Manifesto (Universal Reset Manifesto)

Here we are in our ongoing Covid crisis, with our inter-acting climate, biodiversity, resources, economic, and political crises, in our contested Weltanschauungs. Nevertheless, humanity, each of us, all of us need to decide what we are going to do personally, inter-personally, and organisationally to stop acting out our current degenerative habits which are cascading all of us into our unfolding biodiversity and human extinction crises. So we ask here: Do we have the vision and the will to regenerate both Nature and Humanity, or not? We quote here from a statement, modified in significant ways, that can be found at Ubiquity University’s Master of Regenerative Action: The Fierce Urgency of Now: The denigration of our planetary environment has reached a critical point — in the last 50 years there has been a 69% loss of biodiversity of animals, plants, birds, fish, insects, and forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This means that sustainability is no longer an option for Humanity. One cannot be sustainable with a destroyed habitat. The only option left for us is regeneration. Regenerative development is a holistic approach to development where the conditions for life are enhanced. Humans must re-vitalize, renew, and regenerate both communities and planet to ensure not only our survival but the survival of all species. Nature’s well-being and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human ecology is as broken and despoiled as Nature’s is. Both must be renewed immediately and synergistically. The nature and scope of our multiple crises – including the breaking of many ecological boundaries with escalating losses in biodiversity, disruptions of biogeochemical flows in phosphorous and nitrogen, ongoing failures in land and freshwater management, the crisis that has been called a Code Red for Humanity by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres, runaway climate change, and the urgent need for a comprehensive Breakthrough in global cooperation, discussed by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres in his “Our Common Agenda” report – leave each of us, all of us in Humanity with no other choice. We must work with each other to regenerate or we will perish. Here we work on a Regenerative Climate Action Plan, presented in six sections, introducing many important considerations, grounded in Humanity's wisdom traditions, that continue to be ignored in many current proposals for regenerative action. Nevertheless, these considerations grounded in wisdom and compassion must be included in any truly integrative understanding of both Nature's and Humanity's Heartful Regeneration.

Current neoclassical economics continues to ignore intergenerational equity within authentic sustainable development. It continues to EXTERNALISE each of nine ecological drivers (aerosols, biogeochemical flows, biosphere integrity, climate change, freshwater, land system change, novel entities, ocean acidification, and stratospheric ozone) OUTSIDE of its current models. It therefore fails to have any deep insight into the significant ongoing activity of these nine interacting ecological drivers in its chosen views, chosen operations, and chosen outcomes. Besides ignoring the ongoing degeneration in our ecological habitats, neoclassical economics also ignores the ongoing degeneration in our societies. In neoclassical economics, economic growth (growing GDP) is much more important than the health of people and the health of life on our planet. With all sorts of social undershoots and ecological overshoots interacting with each other, placing life for many people in many communities in deep jeopardy, many sustainability advocates focus attention on what needs to be done to sustain their current enterprise (family, community, business, or nation) within current living conditions. Sustainability path setters r3.0 focus attention on what needs to be done to transform and regenerate the system (living within the carrying capacities of ecological habitats with fair social caring for all inhabitants). Some people, however, with a Heart-Centred Sense of the Sacred place attention on what needs to be done to Truly Love Life in All Living Beings on our Finite Shared Planet. One wonders whether enough human beings will wake up and grow up in personal, inter-personal, inter-generational, and eco-social ways to truly care for life on our planet in current and forthcoming generations.

It is stated as a priority vital objective of all human beings, the survival of our species / humanity. With broad altruism as the main means. From this follows a universal ethical principle. These ideas and their applications are compared with the goals of the UN 2030 Agenda and those of the Pope's Encyclical Fratelli tutti. 17 applications of the universal ethical principle are reviewed, referring to: A World Authority. The humanity. Reviewing laws and regulations. The model of world society. Population: number and quality of life. Sexuality and family. Human ecology. Genetic engineering. Social engineering. The education. Economic and social policies. The marginal and poor. Religions. Nationalisms. Crimes and misdemeanors against Humanity. Universal virtues and values. Individual ethics.

Our planet Earth’s climate is shifting beyond our normal human experience. We are in the grip of increasingly lethal ecological turbulence. The latest report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states we have entered “unprecedented territory,” a “Code Red for Humanity.” Our only antidote to the threat of extinction is regeneration. We can no longer be sustainable with our current degraded and degrading environments. Humanity must work to proactively regenerate the world. We can still regenerate living conditions for life to thrive but only if we act altogether now in life-affirming ways in our various living contexts in our personal lives, inter-personal communities, and local, regional, national, and global societies. We must create a global Network of Regeneration to save ourselves. Regeneration must recognize, in tune with humanity’s deep experience in wisdom traditions, that we are Nature (the tribhuvana, in the Vedic East; corpus-soma-body, anima-psyche-soul, and spiritus-pneuma-heart, in the Latin-Greek-West; know Thyself, in indigenous and religious worlds) and that we must now actively regenerate the world by inter-weaving our human activity in individuals (microcosms), inter-personal communities, and collective societies (mesocosms) within the ecological bounds of our planetary matrices (macrocosms) so that we can create a nurturing web of regeneration of life with everybody for everybody around our planet Earth.

Our planet Earth’s climate is shifting beyond our normal human experience. We are in the grip of increasingly lethal ecological turbulence. The latest report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states we have entered “unprecedented territory,” a “Code Red for Humanity.” Our only antidote to the threat of extinction is regeneration. We can no longer be sustainable with our current degraded and degrading environments. Humanity must work to proactively regenerate the world. We can still regenerate living conditions for life to thrive but only if we act altogether now in life-affirming ways in our various living contexts in our personal lives, inter-personal communities, and local, regional, national, and global societies. We must create a global Network of Regeneration to save ourselves. Regeneration must recognize, in tune with humanity’s deep experience in wisdom traditions, that we are Nature (the tribhuvana, in the Vedic East; corpus-soma-body, anima-psyche-soul, and spiritus-pneuma-heart, in the Latin-Greek-West; know Thyself, in indigenous and religious worlds) and that we must now actively regenerate the world by inter-weaving our human activity in individuals (microcosms), inter-personal communities, and collective societies (mesocosms) within the ecological bounds of our planetary matrices (macrocosms) so that we can create a nurturing web of regeneration of life with everybody for everybody around our planet Earth.

In 1948, over 75 years ago, humanity agreed to support the UN Declaration of Human Rights. In 1972, over 50 years ago, the Club of Rome published groundbreaking work on the Limits to Growth on our finite planet. Today, many of us continue to live with interacting violations of various human rights within interacting ecological overshoots of planetary boundaries. Will we ever learn to live in tune with the true heartfulness of our full humanity, and with the wondrous radiance of life on our planet?

JAHR

We, our bodies and spirits and our natural and social biotopes are complex adaptable systems [CAS’s], interdependent and vulnerable within natural, cultural and political biotopes, longing for life, health and happiness. Clinical and pediatric expertise and ethics are also integrated in many fields of competence and care for our integrated bios and for sustainable biotopes in nature and society. A Bioethical Imperative calls for protecting the complex and interdependent bios in nature and agriculture and in our human social, economic, corporate, cultural, and political bodies for the benefit of our children and ourselves, and for discussing ‘health’ and ‘improvement’ in ethical and not only in technical terms. The protection and promotion of healthy people, sustainable societies, and diverse and stable political bodies depend on basic economic accomplishments, healthy food, harmonious communities, preservation and diversity of cultures and environments, on individual dignity and soc...

Les Temps modernes, 2005

Neither order, natural equilibrium, nor nature of things. Neither harmony nor finality. Neither totality nor power. Nature doesn’t exist. Nothing in contemporary science supports this ancient conception. However, this delusive cosmogony carries on through centuries unharmed, and still invests modern thought. The idea of nature plays a central ideological role in our civilizations. It allows the separation of ‘humanity’ from the rest of the universe. It underlies some mystical relation to Totality and Power. It justifies norms, prescriptions and prohibitions. It motivates humanist and speciesist ideologies. It undermines our duties of justice with claims about what is natural or unnatural. Rejecting the idea of Nature will allow us to regain both ethics and politics.

Medium, 2019

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was a milestone in moral and political thinking and remains an influential reference today. Given Sentientism extends moral consideration to all sentient beings, not just humans, shouldn’t we consider extending the UDHR? As a thought experiment, this paper sets out what a Universal Declaration of Sentient Rights might look like. This approach is based on re-writing the UDHR. A better approach may be to start from a blank sheet.

Our planet’s climate is shifting beyond our normal human experience. We are in the grip of increasingly lethal ecological turbulence. The latest report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states we have entered “unprecedented territory,” a “Code Red for Humanity.” Our only antidote to the threat of extinction is regeneration. We can no longer be sustainable with our current degraded and degrading environments. Humanity must work to proactively regenerate life on our planet. We can still regenerate living conditions for life to thrive but only if we act altogether now in life-affirming ways in our various living contexts in our personal lives, inter-personal communities, and local, regional, national, and global societies. We must create a global Network of Regeneration to save ourselves. Regeneration must recognize, in tune with deep experience in humanity’s wisdom traditions, that we are Nature (the tribhuvana, in the Vedic East; corpus-soma-body, anima-psyche-soul, and spiritus-pneuma-heart, in the Latin-Greek-West; know Thyself, in indigenous and religious worlds) and that we must now actively regenerate the world by inter-weaving our human activity in individuals (microcosms), and interpersonal communities and collective societies (mesocosms) within the ecological bounds of our planetary matrices (macrocosms) so that we can create a nurturing web of regeneration of life for everybody with everybody around our planet Earth.