Community Planet Foundation Blog

We are in the midst of a major environmental crisis, and the current solutions presented by the media are not enough to change the tides.  While it’s great that people and businesses are thinking and acting more “green”, small changes alone will not be enough to bail ourselves out.

Here are the steps that we need to take:

•  We need immediate and total transformation of the current system.   The majority of the problems that we are facing today are a result of our everyone-for-themselves (EFT) systems—especially free-market capitalism.

•  We need to establish a new and better system, Communities that are based on The Highest Good For All which will create abundance on all levels for all, including Nature.

•  Building one cluster of six 500 person Communities to demonstrate The Highest Good model is what is needed to start the positive transformation of the planet.  As people see how easily this can be done, this will create a catalyst for the rest of the planet to follow, and will require far fewer resources than trying to get the EFT paradigm to act quickly to save our planet.

Will you join us in creating the Communities that will start the process towards healing our planet?

“The time has come to break out of past patterns. Attempts to maintain social and ecological stability through old approaches to development and environmental protection will increase instability.  Security must be sought through change.  This Commission has noted a number of actions that must be taken to reduce risks to survival and to put future development on paths that are sustainable.  Yet we are aware that such a reorientation on a continuing basis is simply beyond the reach of present decision-making structures and institutional arrangements, both national and international.”1
—World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)

This conclusion from the WCED’s 1987 report to the U.N. warned the General Assembly that there were many imbalances that needed to be corrected to have a sustainable future, indeed, “to keep options open for future generations.”  In response to the Commission’s sobering report, the 1989 U.N.’s General Assembly mandated the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio do Janeiro, which brought together the world’s leaders for the week-long U.N. Conference on Environment and Development.  But, despite the dire warnings that we have only a limited time to make sweeping changes on how we go about life on the planet, what changed after that conference?  Other than the creation of a good book, AGENDA 21, not much happened.

It’s kind of puzzling that, later in its report, the WCED called upon the government leaders for a solution, since they had already concluded that political solutions would not work, that national and international decision-making structures were incapable of making the necessary changes to secure our future.  The intrinsic problem with government in the everyone-for-themselves system is that the whole system revolves around partisanism and againstness.   The truth is that there are just too many fractional interests involved for existing governments to have much effectiveness.

I think that those of us who would like to transform the planet would agree that we need a new paradigm.  But, with the challenges facing our planet, especially the environmental imbalances, we no longer have the luxury of acting out of againstness towards the government and towards the money/power brokers.  Also, with the Systems Theory telling us that all things are interconnected, we cannot really change what must be changed by simply rallying against one or a couple of issues.  There are so many challenges and problems the planet faces that we would use up all our time and energy being against this or that, and still the planet will have moved a little closer to ecological disaster.  Do I support what those crusaders, who go against the status quo by seeking to expose the harm being done to our planet, are doing?  Yes, I do, because they are getting some truth out there.  Do I want to get involved with my time and energy?  No, because againstness will not produce the new paradigm that is needed, and our form of government will never operate on the level of the Highest Good For All Life.

The new paradigm can only be created by a group of people who absolutely hold the consciousness of the Highest Good For All and have the vision to bring that into manifestation.  People need to see that there is another way, that we don’t have to continue doing the separation that has bred this everyone-for-themselves approach that has been in place unquestioned for thousands of years.  People need to see a Community of people who adopt a way of living together and relating together in Community on the principle of the Highest Good.  When people see the quality of life and the ecological balance that is possible, they will also want to learn the consciousness and the form it takes to do that, and this is what will ultimately transform the planet.   And the transformation of the planet will happen more quickly because we will not be using up our life-force in againstness.  We need to act out of acceptance, loving, and forgiveness.  Againstness will only breed more againstness.  Let’s just stop playing that game—especially since there is a far better option.

Jack Reed

Until we start applying some logic into ecological to resolve the world’s interconnected crises, we’ll never be able to remove the stain in sustainable.  That stain is the legacy of the everyone-for-themselves system that has been in place unquestioned for thousands of years and is at the core of the environmental dilemma.

We need to realize that the everyone-for-themselves socio-economic-political paradigm is a broken system that is not only exceedingly wasteful and absurdly inefficient, but has also done much harm not only to nature but also to the quality of life for humans.

It seems like the Green Movement is dedicating itself to just creating Band-Aids for a broken system.  If we replaced the everyone-for-themselves system with one based of the Highest Good For All Life, we could do a universe more for ecology than what we’re doing now by trying to green the current system, and we could do this by investing in a Highest Good model just one one-millionth of the resources currently being spent on the Band-Aid approach.

The way we live together and relate together in Community is the basic building block needed to change the planet.  Help us manifest a Community model based on the Highest Good For All that can transform our world.  Let’s put the logic into ecological.

Jack Reed