Saving the Soul of the Earth

The magical work of artist Bruno Torfs is featured in the film. Please visit his website. 

Today I would like to share with you  a great independent film "Anima Mundi; peak oil, climate change, permaculture and Gaia theory."  "Anima Mundi" is an artistic, spiritual and hard hitting look at the current state of the spirit of the world and an introductory instruction manual for saving the soul of the Earth. 

Please watch this movie, please listen to the lesson and please, please, share this post with as many people as you can. We need to wake up. I speak to myself as well as to all of you. Americans especially need to wake up and realize that we can not go on using resources at our current levels. The message that we need to share is that we can live completely full, happy and satisfied lives without destroying the world (and we are destroying the world). In fact we can live much happier lives with fewer things. We need to stop listening to the voices in the system that tell us that happiness is found in more and more things. We need to start listening to the voices that remind us that we had a story before cheap energy permitted the growth of our current bloated consumer economy. It was a story that was full of imagination, that created some of the greatest art, and the greatest minds, knowledge and logic the world has known. A story that was peopled with families who lived full, contented lives that did not destroy their environment.  

The fact of the matter is that we cannot continue to live a good life if we do not make changes now. This isn't the first time in human history that we have tapped out our resource base leading to desertification, massive human migration and wars of conquest. The fertile crescent was after all once a fertile region filled with cities and farms until the combination of human activity and climate changed tipped it over the edge turning it into a desolate moonscape incapable of supporting human life.  Today there are probably more than 10 times as many people on the planet as there were then and we have already expanded into all the habitable regions of the world. The world is already tipping into the area of peak resources. Not just peak oil, but gold, copper, silver and other ores and resources. As these resources become more scarce we are going to have to learn how to utilize the resources that we have already mined by much higher levels of recycling. But we will not solve the problem of peak resources just by recycling. We are also going to have to reduce our overall demand on Earth's resources. If you agree, please join the (r)evolution.