Navigating Our Perfect Storm of Crises
The dominant world culture lives within the western scientific creation story that tells people the universe is accidental, meaningless matter running down relentlessly by entropy and that life is a competitive struggle in scarcity against this downward slide — the most depressing creation story any culture has ever told, which does not even fit the results of scientific research.
Living under these bleak scenarios has driven our consumer society for decades, only to reveal at last how very unsustainable it is. Now threatened not only by economic unsustainability, but also by climate disaster, the world is desperately in need of a better, more inspiring story to live by....and science, mandated to write our creation story, is now in a position to expand its horizons, reassess its foundational beliefs, and give us the new story filled with hope and promise that its own research results warrants.
Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D., is an internationally known evolution biologist and futurist, author and sustainability consultant to businesses, government agencies and other organizations.
Dr. Sahtouris uses Nature’s principles and practice, revealed in biological evolution, as useful models for organizational change. She applies them in the corporate world, in global politics and economics, and in our efforts to create sustainable health and well being for humanity within the larger living systems of Earth.
Dr. Sahtouris is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders , a founding member of Rising Women, Rising World, and has co-convened two international symposia on the foundations of science in Hokkaido and Kuala Lumpur. She is currently Professor in Residence at Chaminade University, School of Business & Communication. She has appeared in numerous films and is author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution, A Walk Through Time: from Stardust to Us, Biology Revisioned (with Willis Harman) and her latest eBook, Gaia’s Dance.
“We've created a perfect storm of crises and we've got to grow up. It's as simple as that. It's time for humans to reach the mature cooperative phase. We need not the hero's journey myth that brought us to where we are now, but a story of cooperation, a story of the ecstasy of forming real community by recognizing our oneness, by focusing on love rather than fear, and by making Earth a sacred place.” — Elisabet Sahtouris