Nachdenkliches – Graswurzel –

Eine Freundin von mir schickte mir den untenstehenden Link (und Text) zu einer Seite von Paul Hawken, der mir bis dahin unbekannt gewesen ist. Gerne möchte ich wissen wie es euch mit diesem Standpunkt von Paul Hawken geht. Hier ist meiner:

Wenn ich in die Welt schaue, nehme ich verschiedenste Bewegungen waren, die lauten und sozusagen offiziellen Seiten, einerseits, die vor allen Dingen von den Medien bestimmt werden und die Seite der vielen Menschen, andererseits, weltweit, die andere Wege gehen. Leisere. Wirksame, gerade dort wo sie sind.

Ich denke an die vielen Menschen, die mir in meinem Leben begegnet sind, die mit Herz und Mitgefühl in der Welt wirken, die sich engagieren und arrangieren mit dem was ist, was es gerade an ihren Orten und jetzt braucht. Ich denke an die vielen Projekte in der Welt, von denen ich gehört, über sie gelesen oder einige dann eben doch mal im TV gesehen habe …

Von dieser Warte aus kann ich Paul Hawken Recht geben.

Ich mag die Idee der Graswurzeln schon lange und schrieb auch immer mal wieder darüber. Und ich mag auch immer wieder das Bild der sich ausbreitenden Wasserringe, wenn man einen Stein in einen stillen See wirft. Nein, ich werfe keine Steine, ich säe Samen.

Es gibt die Momente in denen ich das weltweite Netz spüre, das Netz das trägt, das anders ist, als man uns glauben machen will. Das sind die Momente, die mich nähren, meine Hoffnung und Zuversicht auch. Die Menschheit bewegt sich. Ich baue nicht nur für Jetzt, ich baue auch für morgen und was fürs bauen gilt, gilt auch für meine Saat. Liebe zum Leben, hab keine Angst.

Genug von mir.

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The Biggest Movement in the World that No One Saw Coming | Paul Hawken

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 bars, 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, ‘Waken up!’

It’s so new, we can’t recognise it.
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.

Paul Hawken, leading environmentalist, social change activist and author. Based on his book:
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice and Beauty to the World

Paul has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on Earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media.

Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and centuries of hidden history. A culmination of Hawken’s many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire all who despair of the world’s fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself.