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We Are That
Life on earth is at risk for extinction because of our war against diversity.
Once you realize that you and the planet’s biodiversity are one, nothing less than a shift of identity follows.
An adage from ancient India, “As is the greatest, so is the smallest,” has never been truer.
Microbiome diversity is the foundation for health and longevity, while the destruction of this diversity is the beginning of chronic disease of every variety.
The adage could be expanded to “As is the outside, so is the inside.” The global microbiome functions as a communication network that actually passes electrical information throughout the cellular matrix to coordinate everything life needs to thrive at the cellular level, not simply nutrition and reproduction but repair and adaptation to changing conditions.
Nature is managing its own identity crisis now. Nature’s fluent communication network cannot be produced by a single species, but it can be threatened by one.
At the exact moment in history when our existence is being understood as one thread woven in the tapestry of life as a whole, we are tearing the fabric apart, and all life forms will suffer…
The scale of damage is too frightening to contemplate, much less measure. We must transform now. The victims of this war are standing…
