Life on the Land: New Spirituality, New Vision, New Reality

Life on the Land
New Spirituality
New Vision
New Reality
Guy Dauncey
Comox Valley
Land Trust
May 2014

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The Universe took 13 billion years to
create the miracle that is nature…

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GDP =
Gross
Depletion
of the
Planet

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Gross Depletion of the Planet
+ Yield
- Costs
= Profit

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Dead albatross filled with plastic garbage

Hansen: The current increase in global warming is
"...equivalent to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima
atomic bombs per day, 365 days per year. That’s
how much extra energy Earth is gaining each day."

If global warming exceeds
1.6°C
up to
31%
of Earth’s species
will be committed to
extinction,
having nowhere to go
to escape the rising heat

The last time the world was
3°C warmer, during the Pliocene era,
the sea level was up to
25 metres
higher
and we are currently on track for
4°C, 5°C or 6°C warmer

2 metres
10 metres
18 metres
25 metres

If all of Earth’s polar ice melted
70 metres sea-level rise
92 metres
70 metres

2°C is “far into the dangerous range.”
If the current rate of emissions
continues much longer,
“it will become exceedingly difficult to
keep the warming below a target
smaller than 2°C.”
- James Hansen

2°C of warming, Hansen’s team says,
will have consequences that will be “disastrous,”
and which will
“cause major dislocations for civilization.”

Which of us is going to raise a hand and say,
“Yes, it’s worth it”?

Neolithic Era
Ancient Egypt
Roman Empire
Islamic Golden Age
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
The Age of Fossil Fuels
……………………………………….
The last 10,000 years

The Age of Firewood
The Age of Fossil Fuels
The Solar Age

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A billion years
The Sun will not begin to turn
into a Red Giant for more than a billion years.
That’s 100,000 periods of 10,000 years

A billion years
The Sun does not begin to turn
into a Red Giant for more than a billion years.
And with every passing year,
solar technology will improve
and get cheaper.

The Motivating Power of
Vision

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www.cityrepair.org

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Cheonggyecheon, Seoul, South Korea

London: a Garden Bridge across the Thames
Thomas Heatherwick

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CITY
of the
FUTURE
A Journey to the Year 2032
GUY DAUNCEY
Summer
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D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?
Where Do We Come From?
What Are We?
Where Are We Going??

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Voyager 1 photo of Earth
from 6 billion kilometers.

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The Universe has taken
13 billion years
to create us

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Number of stars in the Universe
1024
: 1 trillion trillion

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Number of atoms
in your body:
1027
: 1000 trillion
trillion
All self-organized
into one amazing
whole

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And every atom was either made in the Big Bang
Or in a later Supernova explosion

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Number of stars in our galaxy
100 trillion

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Number of synapses in your brain
100 trillion
All self-organized into one amazing whole

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100 trillion synapses 100 trillion stars

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Are you conscious?

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Are other humans conscious?

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Are chimpanzees conscious?

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Are cats conscious?

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Are elephants conscious?

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Are worms conscious?

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Are amoebae conscious?

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Single-celled algae?

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Are molecules conscious?

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Do you have free will to choose your future?
Or is everything predetermined?

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Is there purpose and direction in the Universe?
Or is it just all just random?

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What story do you use
to make sense of it all?

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A: There is Spiritual purpose in our life

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B: Who knows? But it’s amazing

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C: Nature is good,
Humans are bad

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D:

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What story do you use to make sense of it all?
A: Spiritual purpose B: Who knows? But it’s amazing
C: Nature good, humans bad
D:

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Humans are motivated by dreams of life and wholeness,
not by nightmares of death and collapse.

Our History – An Incredible Journey

Albert Einstein:
“A human being is part of a whole,
called by us the Universe, a part
limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings, as something separated
from the rest—a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our
personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest
us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by
widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

Francis Crick:
“The Astonishing Hypothesis is that "You," your joys and
your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your
sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more
than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and
their associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll's Alice might
have phrased it: "You're nothing but a pack of neurons."

“Whatever consciousness is—
however it relates to the brain
—dogs, birds and legions of
other species have it. “
“Our knowledge is but a fire
lighting up the vast darkness
around us, flickering in the
wind. So, let us be open to
alternative, ratinal
explanations in the quest for
the sources of consciousness.”

Max Planck:
“I regard consciousness as
fundamental.
I regard matter as
derivative from
consciousness.
We cannot get behind
consciousness.
Everything that we talk
about, everything that we
regard as existing,
postulates
consciousness.”

Wolfgang Pauli:
“It is my personal opinion that the science of the future
reality will be neither ‘psychic’ nor ‘physical’,
but somehow both and somehow neither.”

Sir Arthur Eddington:
“The universe is of the nature of a thought or sensation in a
universal Mind. To put the conclusion crudely – the stuff of
the world is mind-stuff. As is often the way with crude
statements, I shall have to explain that by “mind” I do not
exactly mean mind and by “stuff” I do not at all mean stuff.
Still that is about as near as we can get to the idea in a
simple phrase.”

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:
“We are logically forced to assume the existence in
rudimentary form … of some sort of psyche in every
corpuscle, even in those (the mega molecules and below)
whose complexity is of such a low or modest order as to
render it (the psyche) imperceptible.”

What is this thing we call the Brain?

100 billion neurons
1 trillion glia (support cells)

What is this thing we call Mind?

What is this thing we call Consciousness?

Do animals have consciousness?

The First Law of Syntropy
“Acting through consciousness,
syntropy motivates individual units of being
to self-organize cooperatively
within their empathic reach
to achieve greater organizational power, range,
competence, integrity and freedom
for the common good.”
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The Second Law of Syntropy
“In the long run,
due to the deep fundamental unity of the Universe,
any unit of being that extends its empathy
beyond its familiar reach
will discover affinity with other units of being.
Over time, the syntropic self-organizing impulse will
result in ever-widening circles of empathy,
until they embrace the entire Universe.”
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What is this thing we call Spirit?

The Gratitude Pledge
In gratitude for having been given the gift of Life, and the wonders
that accompany it;
In gratitude for Earth our home, for Nature, and for the many
beautiful species we share it with;
In gratitude for all who are working to make this world a better
place, and all who have done so in the past, stretching far back into
the mists of time;
In gratitude for the freedom I have been given to choose my path, as
I take my turn in carrying the baton of life;
In gratitude for these gifts, I pledge that I will use my life to serve the
betterment of humankind, the healing of suffering, and the
restoration of our beautiful planet the Earth..
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• The vision and values of a sustainable Comox Valley
• Local hikes and beaches
• Conservation, environmental and food groups
• Hiking, kayak and canoe clubs
• Organic farms and sources of organic food
• Opportunities for volunteering
• Conservation covenants
• Personal stories

• Local realtors become formal supporters
• Monthly Green Welcome potluck
• Monthly or bimonthly hike
• Hosted by volunteer, + volunteers from groups
• Time for personal “getting to know you”

FARM VILLAGES
The Way of the Future

A lot of Vancouver Island farmland is growing hay

Good farmland
sits empty
Young people
want to farm

Using small-scale intensive organic
horticulture, farmers can earn to earn up to
$25,000 an acre, grossing up to
$80,000 a year profit per small farm.

Throughout the world, in every culture,
farmers have lived in small farm villages

By 2034, on any farm of more than (eg) 40
hectares, 1 hectare may be rezoned as a
Community Farm Village
and additional acreage may be leased or sold
for farming purposes.

Community Farmland Zone
Allows development of a clustered Farm
Village with controls to ensure the land is
farmed:
A: Community Farmland Zone Bylaw
B: Farming Covenant registered with land
C: Strata Farm Fees – if land is not farmed
D: Registered Housing Agreement
restricting residential units to farmers and
their families.

100 Hectare Farm
Anywhere, BC Farm
Village

100 Hectare Farm
Anywhere, BC Farm Village
Cost of land:
$100,000?
Shared by 5
families =
$20,000 each
Cost per small
starter
self-built house:
$150,000

100 Hectare Farm
Anywhere, BC Farm Village
Cost of land:
$100,000?
Shared by 5
families =
$20,000 each
Cost per small
starter
self-built house:
$150,000
Leased
or
purchased
Leased
or
purchased

In 2034, land zoned agricultural carries
a requirement from the time of purchase
that at least
25%
of the land be used to grow food …

or be leased to someone who will.

Deep in many of our hearts is a longing
to recover what we have lost.

Family
Community
Honest hard work
Harmony with Nature

Sara Dent, www.farmlove.Love…

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Celebration

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Dream it
Wish it
Do it

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Josephine Wall
www.josephinewall.co.uk

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Metamorphosis…

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Imagining a Green Sustainable
Comox Valley, 2034
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Earth Week 2014

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