Integrative Studies

From our ongoing Covid crisis to our inter-acting political, economic, resources, climate, and biodiversity crises, in our contested Weltanschauungs, humanity, all of us, each of us, needs to decide what we are going to do personally, inter-personally, and organisationally to stop acting out our current degenerative habits that are cascading all of us into our unfolding human extinction crisis.
We ask here: Do we have the vision and will to regenerate nature and humanity, or not?
We quote from a statement, modified in significant ways, that can be found at Ubiquity University’s Master of Regenerative Action:
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The denigration of our planetary environment has reached a critical point — in the last 50 years there has been a 69% loss of biodiversity of animals, plants, birds, fish, insects, and forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This means that sustainability is no longer an option for humanity. One cannot be sustainable with a destroyed habitat. The only option left for us is regeneration. Regenerative Development is a holistic approach to development where the conditions for life are enhanced. Humans must re-vitalize, renew, and regenerate both community and planet to ensure not only our survival but the survival of all species. Nature’s well-being and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human ecology is as broken and despoiled as Nature’s is. Both must be renewed immediately and synergistically. The nature and scope of our multiple crises – including the breaking of many planetary boundaries with escalating losses in biodiversity, rampant disruptions of biogeochemical flows in phosphorous and nitrogen, massive failures in land and freshwater management, and runaway climate change, detailed in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report – leave humanity with no other choice. We must regenerate or perish.
In this paper, we engage with many important multi-cultural considerations, grounded in humanity's wisdom traditions, that continue to be ignored in many current versions of regeneration, but these multi-cultural considerations must be included in any integrative  understanding of both humanity's and Nature's full regeneration.

Becoming Interdisciplinary introduces students to interdisciplinary studies and is useful for students seeking a better understanding both of interdisciplinary studies and of themselves. Theoretically informed, it is primarily written for undergraduates in an extremely readable style. First-year graduate students interested in pursuing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research will also find it helpful. Now available, the purpose of the revised and expanded Third Edition of Becoming Interdisciplinary is to introduce students to the foundations of interdisciplinary studies so that they can better understand both interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as well as improve how they communicate what they are to others.


Students will begin to learn how to answer the following questions:

What are interdisciplinary studies?

What are the ways students can communicate effectively their interdisciplinary, integrative or transdisciplinary programs of study?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of pursuing an interdisciplinary education?

How can interdisciplinary studies help students better attain their professional goals?


Part One Understanding Interdisciplinary Studies

1. Introduction
2. What Is Interdisciplinarity? Some Essential Definitions
3. Metaphors for Interdisciplinary Studies
4. Taxonomy of Interdisciplinary Studies
5. History of Interdisciplinarity
6. Skills and “Characteristics” of Interdisciplinarians

Part Two Toolkit for Communicating Interdisciplinary Studies

7. Debating Interdisciplinary Studies
8. Identifying Your Personal, Academic, and Professional Interests and Goals
9. Linking Personal Worldviews to Disciplinary Perspectives
10. Describing Your Interdisciplinary Degree
11. Telling Your Story as an Interdisciplinarian
12. Creating and Presenting Portfolios
13. Reflecting with Online Portfolios

Special Features of this book include all of the following:

Definitions of key terms by leading scholars of interdisciplinary studies

A toolkit for communicating one’s interdisciplinary program of study

A background history of how interdisciplinary studies programs emerged

A discussion of leading advantages and disadvantages of interdisciplinary studies

A brief overview of leading and emergent currents of transdisciplinarity

Numerous experiential learning class activities, such as a metaphor top-ten list and a class “trial” on interdisciplinary studies, and the following major assignments: intellectual autobiography, autobiographical maps, disciplinary research, research on disciplinary practitioners, reflection exercises, and student portfolios

Readings in interdisciplinary studies selected to increase understanding

Discussion questions for most readings designed to help students pick out main points of reading

Inclusion of actual student work as examples for class activities and assignments

Our Earth’s climate is shifting beyond our normal human experience. We are in the grip of increasingly lethal ecological turbulence. The latest report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states we have entered “unprecedented territory,” a “Code Red for Humanity.”
Our only antidote to the threat of extinction is regeneration. We can no longer be sustainable with our current degraded and degrading environment. Humanity must proactively regenerate the world.
We can still regenerate living conditions for life to thrive but only if we act altogether now in life-affirming ways in our various living contexts in our personal lives, inter-personal communities, and local, regional, national, and global societies.
We must create a global Network of Regeneration to save ourselves.
Regeneration must recognize, in tune with humanity’s deep experience in wisdom traditions, that we are Nature (the tribhuvana, in the Vedic East; corpus-soma-body, anima-psyche-soul, and spiritus-pneuma-heart, in the Latin-Greek-West; know Thyself, in indigenous and religious worlds) and that we must now actively regenerate the world by inter-weaving our human activity in individuals (microcosms), inter-personal communities, and collective societies (mesocosms) within the ecological bounds of our planetary matrices (macrocosms) so that we can create a nurturing web of regeneration of life with everybody for everybody around our planet Earth.

Color, temperature, and heat are among the concepts in science that are interconnected. These concepts are introduced to learners even before they enter the basic education. On the other hand, in school, it is formally  introduced to them not only in science but also in the humanities. The foregoing study attempted to explore the mental thoughts of university students on color, temperature and heat using everyday circumstances that involved the said concepts. The situations in question form were administered to 50 3rd year Bachelor of Secondary Education majoring Physical Science and 3rd year Bachelor in Elementary Education majoring Content. Data gathered and collected were subjected to simple Collaizi method of data analysis to which themes and patterns were sought from the responses. Results were presented using percentages and simple frequency. The study revealed that university students possess a gap in their understanding of the above-mentioned concepts as greater majority of them possesses contradicting and inconsistent explanations. This implies that science curriculum both in the basic education and higher education needs revisiting. Likewise, an effective teaching sequence related to these concepts may be developed and used to improve students’ conceptions.

Given that a climate and ecological emergency has been declared by millions of young people in school strikes, global climate strikes, and XR protests, in recent weeks and months, and by an ever increasing number of over 1,000 (local, regional and national) jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, France and Canada, around the world, a crucial question arises that needs to be addressed:
What needs to happen in our current climate and ecological emergency for people to work altogether to generate thriveable living conditions for current and future generations in the 2020s and beyond?
Karen O'Brien and Robin Leichenko at https://cchange.no/, and Gail Hochachka at https://integralwithoutborders.net/ have described 4 types of climate discourse: the biophysical discourse (climate change is an environmental problem), which focuses on earth systems sciences, and is prominent amongst scientists, policymakers, and the informed public; the critical discourse (climate change is a social problem), which draws attention to how political, economic, cultural, and social factors impact considerations on climate change; the dismissive discourse (climate change is no problem), which is to some degree alive in everyone, when we deny the evidence, downplay the importance, or regress to simpler immediate concerns in the face of climate change; and the integrative discourse (climate change is a complex problem, involving personal, political and practical dimensions), which attempts to inhabit and integrate altogether various epistemic views, methods of inquiry, and associated outcomes in these different discourses.
What we tend to see in many discussions in our climate and ecological emergency is that some people respond with proposals grounded primarily in their cultural heritages, some with proposals grounded primarily in their modern rational disciplines, and some with proposals grounded primarily in their post-modern inter-disciplinary and multi-cultural dialogues.
Usually, people advocating primarily out of their cultural heritage, or out of their modern rational discipline, or out of any worldcentric "all of us, humans, with dignity and respect for each person and all peoples" dialogue, will tend to talk past each other without attempting to inhabit and integrate each other's important voice altogether into an integrative orchestra of fully musical understanding.
In this paper, we attempt to introduce various voices that need to be heard, understood, and orchestrated altogether in the development of a climate and ecological emergency plan that is truly noetic and creative, fully integrative and wholly thriveable, and that allows each and all human and living beings to live and thrive in their lives within the natural limits of our planet in the 2020s and beyond.
For the latest developments in my understanding see From Our Global Pandemic in 2020 to Our Many Transformations in the 2020s: Transforming Out of Our Current Suffering into Wise Compassion and Compassionate Wisdom for Everybody.
We ask you to support our children in their efforts to secure their futures in their Global and Local Climate Actions.

Time to make a choice: Life! Not extinction!
As Kate Raworth said at the 2019 Reporting 3.0 Conference,
"We have an economy that is degenerative by design. It is literally running down the living planet, on which we depend. We have to completely reinvent that to make it regenerative by design, so that we work with and within the cycles of the living world."
As Greta Thunberg said at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit, "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!
You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.
We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not."
Our choice here is life!
What can we do to reduce, stop, and eventually reverse global warming?
In our response, we attempt to envision and explore an Integrative Climate Emergency Plan.
Preferably sooner, rather than later, we need to learn to live and work with each other to reduce, stop, and eventually reverse anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming by transforming our current dysfunctional global capitalism and our inadequate triple bottom line multi-capitalisms into an integrative, multi-dimensional, multi-capitalism.
In their responses to global warming, the IPCC, and other climate change activists, like the Club of Rome and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, tend to propose mainly eco-social pathways for rapid decarbonisation in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
But, in the context of our integrative multi-dimensional multi-capitalism, many of these eco-social pathways miss much too much in waking up the heart-spirit and in growing up the body-mind in personal choices, interpersonal relations, and eco-social organisations in human beings.
To overcome global capitalism’s current excesses in undermining societies with its exclusive focus on making profits, with its constant promotion of overconsuming greed, and with its mindless marginalisation of its destructive impacts on people and planet with anthropogenic global warming and an intensifying biodiversity extinction crisis – which looks like, given recent scientific (IPCC and IPBES) reports on our increasingly dire climate and biodiversity crises, if we continue with our current business as usual practices, that it will include the human species – we need to establish, at personal, interpersonal, household, local, regional, national, and global scales, an integrative, open, inclusive, green, regenerative, cyclical, transparent, agile, finely tuned, multi-dimensional multi-capitalism that functions to serve the thriveability of each and all human and living beings within our planet's natural limits as soon as possible. 
In doing all of this, we will need to learn to live, grow, and work with each other within various habitats with various horizons on Mount Thriveability.
Also, if you are curious, Exploring Mount Thriveability is part 2 of Towards Integrative Thriveability. Part 1 is called An Integrative Climate Emergency Plan.
For the latest developments in my understanding see From Our Global Pandemic in 2020 to Our Many Transformations in the 2020s: Transforming Out of Our Current Suffering into Wise Compassion and Compassionate Wisdom for Everybody.
We ask you to support our children in their efforts to secure their futures in their Global and Local Climate Actions.

A generative response to climate change in an integrative world includes premodern, modern, and postmodern variables, as factors like religion and science become interconnected, interactive, wise, compassionate, and playful. In premodern times, three eyes of knowing - the eyes of flesh, mind and heart/spirit - maintain currency, especially for esoteric contemplatives. In modern times, however, many turn their attention from developing virtues and heartfulness towards making observations and measurements of mainly sensory objects, relationships, and systems. Thus, in a modern exterior matter/energy flatland, the eye of heart/spirit with its interior virtues in selves, cultures and nature tend to be neglected. In postmodern times, discontent with many modern failures, such as exponential growth in the use of natural resources beyond planetary limitations, which is contributing to disruptive climate change/global warming, plus aspirations for equality, social inclusion, and human sustainability/thriveability, prompt many people to try to recover all three eyes of knowing, but many of these people live primarily in a social context that privileges an egalitarian flatland in which no hierarchy/prioritising/ranking is allowed and in a social context dominated by extractive neoliberal economics that continues to justify the financial exploitation and exhaustion of both natural and social resources. In integrative times, four vital practices emerge into prominence: growing up into and through various orders of consciousness; waking up from ego-centred ignorance into deep interconnecting heartfulness; cleaning up personal, interpersonal, and sociocultural shadow issues; and showing up as fully alive human beings using playfully polarities, like individual/collective and interior/exterior. Here I offer a hopeful contribution to the emergence of a more integrative understanding of climate change and to the emergence of a more integrative global world.

In their recent documentaries, David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg have given their accounts on the devastating environmental consequences of humanity’s rapid economic and population growth in recent decades. Both lament the tragic decline of life on Earth. Attenborough states emphatically, “Our planet is headed for disaster. We need to learn how to work with nature; rather than against it.”
Living within our self-created ecological emergency, we need to decide NOW, as individuals in our various inter-personal communities in our various collective societies, do we want to continue, or not, with our current degenerative ways of living, exploiting in unsustainable ways both nature and human beings in pursuit of reckless economic growth, defined in diverse ways at local, national, and global scales as GDP, CSR, ESG, GPI, SDGs, irresponsible greed, ongoing intragenerational and intergenerational injustices et al.? 
We warn here that each of these indicators of economic growth (GDP, CSR, ESG, GPI, SDGs et al.) fails to recognise: 1) our planet’s ecological thresholds - a planetary ethic that accepts full responsibility for sustaining the quality of our planet’s air, waters, lands, minerals, plants, and animals; and 2) fair social allocations – a gender ethic and an intergenerational ethic that accepts full responsibility for securing the full dignity, and for generating the full qualitative development in body, mind, soul, and heart, of each and every human being, within and across current and future generations, within all current societies.
Much better than continuing with our escalating ecocide and with our intensifying episodes of horrifying humanicide, which can be seen everywhere, most significantly with the general loss of Heart-Centred Values in modern, postmodern, and metamodern communities, we need to decide as individuals in our various communities in our various local, regional, national, and global societies to work with each other to move out of our current degenerative ways of living to regenerate altogether in individuals and communities the astonishing Beauty, Goodness, Truth, and other precious Divine Qualities that can be found in our Full Humanity and in the Wholeness of Nature.
One option opens into valuable thriving futures, leading into happiness for each and all; the other does not, remaining stuck in ceaseless compounding suffering.
For the latest developments in my work see Moving Out of Our Heartless Degenerative Consumerism into Heartful Multi-Cultural Regeneration: The Critical Urgency of Now: We Need to Learn How to Work with Nature, Rather Than Against Nature.

Today’s society looks to universities for solutions to broad-based issues that require cross-disciplinary expertise. Yet, the organizational structure of our institutions remains locked in academic and administrative silos that have little genuine ability to communicate or to recognize the interdependence of knowledge. Why does the capacity to communicate between disciplines and units remain limited? How do formalizations of our experience create barriers? What kind of reflection would it take to subject our mental models of knowledge and learning to critical inquiry? This discussion highlights one of the most entrenched ‘group identity myths’ that underlie the structure of modern academic institutions, the ‘triviality of integration’ thesis.

The popular movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ – a climate change allegory, featuring a comet crashing into earth – is provocative, funny, upsetting, at times, but seriously inadequate.
Techno-optimism is a popular way for evading the full predicament of our climate-ecological crises.
‘Don’t Look Up’ provides its own curious treatment of techno-optimism, ending with (oh, dear!) the gory consumption of a dim-witted naked American president by a hungry dinosaur!
Beyond techno-optimisms championed by techno-billionaires, there is, according to sustainability advocate Bill Baue, either ESG or Sustainability: You Choose.
Sustainability, however, receives no attention in ‘Don’t Look Up’.
Instead, the movie makes a naïve stand for science, without any awareness of scientism, which, some say, is another crucial factor in our climate-ecological crises.
Some philosophers of science, ignored for decades, have warned us about the dangers of Cartesian bifurcation, which results in the reduction of reality into abstract mathematical terms.
This drastic reduction of reality, also totally ignored in ‘Don’t Look Up’, ends with all of us waging our all-consuming stupid war on nature.
So, we ask here: what must we do to stop waging our stupid, degenerative, ever-escalating war on nature?

The popular movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ – a climate change allegory, featuring a comet crashing into earth – is provocative, funny, upsetting, at times, but seriously inadequate.
For many people, techno-optimism is a way for evading the full predicament of our climate-ecological crises.
‘Don’t Look Up’ provides its own curious treatment of techno-optimism, ending with (oh, dear!) the gory consumption of a dim-witted naked American president by a hungry dinosaur!
Beyond various techno-optimisms championed by various techno-billionaires, there is, according to sustainability advocate Bill Baue, either ESG or Sustainability: You Choose.
Whoops! Sustainability receives no attention in ‘Don’t Look Up’.
Instead, the movie makes a naïve stand for science, without any awareness of the ways science turns into scientism, which, some say, is another crucial factor in our climate-ecological crises.
Some philosophers of science, ignored for decades, continue to warn us about the dangers of Cartesian bifurcation, which results in the reduction of reality into abstract mathematical terms.
Such drastic reduction of reality, also ignored in ‘Don’t Look Up’, ends with all of us waging our stupid all-consuming war on nature.
So we need A New Global Agreement for the Regeneration of Life in All Living Beings on Our Planet.
We need to work to change our current degenerative ways of living into truly regenerative ways of living, engaging with what all of us must do to stop waging our current, stupid, degenerative, ever-escalating war on nature.

On 2 March 1972, 50 years ago, the Limits to Growth report to The Club of Rome was published.
This ground-breaking report was the first to model our planet’s interconnected systems.
It made it clear to those with eyes to see and with the hearts to care that – if growth trends in population, industrialisation, resource use, and pollution continued unchanged in following decades – humanity would reach and then overshoot the carrying capacities of the Earth at some point in the lives of many people in current generations.
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, each time we have received another wake up call during the past 50 years – if we paid enough attention to consider any one of many more wake up calls to see what we are doing to life on our planet – many of us, in governance, education, industry, and other domains, quickly turned over to re-hit the snooze button to continue with our habits as normal within our current legalised degenerative modes of living.
Now, in the 2020s, inevitably, our snoozing time is over.
We have reached and are reaching many critical limits to growth – crossing various tipping points – jeopardising the future of life, and, crucially for some of us, undermining the lives of our children and grandchildren, on our planet.
In this ongoing work, we try to envision all of us joining altogether to try to regenerate life on our planet.

All of us, at present, are living with a global-linear-extract-produce-use-waste economy, promoted in Business-As-Usual as economic growth in GDP.
Thus, all of us are participating in many ways in the ongoing destruction of our natural environments, violating ecological boundaries, violating fair provisions of basic social foundations for everybody with everybody, violating our better principles of Beauty, Goodness, Truth, Unity, and Integrity.
And thus, in many ways, we are destroying the necessary bases of liveable futures for current and future generations.
Time to send the global-linear-extract-produce-use-waste economy into the annals of history.
Time to generate liveable living conditions with Thresholds-Based Thinking and Action (https://www.r3-0.org/gtac/).
Time to Enliven Nature.
Time to Ennoble the Best in Human Beings.

The Federal Court in Australia ruled, on March 15, 2022, that the Australian Minister for the Environment does NOT have a legal duty of care to protect our children from climate change.

Does that mean the Australian Minister for the Environment has a legal duty NOT to protect our children from climate change?

With all things in economics continuing to be over-ruled by measures of GDP, and overwhelmed by "fairy tales of eternal economic growth", indeed, this seems to be, to a significant degree, the case.

The following day, on March 16, nature published a bold editorial, riddled with ambiguities, asking tentatively, Are there limits to economic growth? It’s time to call time on a 50-year argument (nature.com)

Others seem to understand better than nature what is happening on our planet:

Stockholm Declaration - RESTORING OUR COMMON HOME: DECLARATION FOR STOCKHOLM+50;

The Limits to Growth+50 - Club of Rome;

WORLD7, global integrated Assessment model (IAM).

Have you seen the extraordinary weather records occurring in the Arctic around the North Pole, and in the Antartica, in recent days and weeks? So outrageously warm that sea ice melt in the Arctic for this year has already started! It was supposed to be still winter up there!

Here is my ongoing attempt to learn to live within our global ecological thresholds and with fair social allocations to everybody for everybody.

Numbers of human beings increase by 1 billion every 12-14 years, and all of us humans are living amidst an escalating mass biodiversity extinction crisis of soul-shattering proportions. In David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, Sir David Attenborough exposes the devastating environmental consequences of humanity's rapid economic and population growth in recent decades. He laments the sad decline of life on Earth and states emphatically, "Our planet is headed for disaster. We need to learn how to work with nature; rather than against it."
But, as you can see with his words, David Attenborough treats nature as an "it", which is a conventional western mindset bias, a 500-year-old habit, that restricts consciousness-being-bliss to scientific forms of rationality; he does not treat Nature as a sacred "Thou", revered in personal meaning-making, and celebrated in inter-personal relations in sacred worlds.
Let us say here: around the world people with a sense of the sacred consider Nature to be a sacred "Thou" with innate dignity, involving precious displays of beauty, goodness, and truth, with never to be taken for granted, nor ignorantly abused, everlasting, Divine values.

Here all of us are in CODE RED with our escalating climate crisis, with our current business-as-usual trends already condemning ourselves to 1.5°C degrees of global heating by about 2030, and, given that for many of us changing ourselves is much too hard, already re-signing ourselves to allowing around 3.0°C degrees of global heating within the lives of a generation or two!
Indeed, each of us, all of us, are living in very challenging times. In addition to dooming ourselves to inhabiting increasing global heating for many forthcoming decades, we have
• our ongoing challenges with Covid into the foreseeable future
• our ongoing decline of biodiversity and life on Earth, with Sir David Attenborough saying emphatically, “Our planet is headed for disaster. We need to learn how to work with nature; rather than against it.”
• Harald Sverdrup et al.’s ongoing research into the limits of current supplies and declining resource quality, compounding within forthcoming years, of key resources, that are expected to be needed in transforming from degenerative to regenerative economies
• current economic systems that deliberately 1) fail to consider the necessity of living within our planet’s limited ecological thresholds, and 2) fail to provide secure social foundations for everybody with everybody in genuine intragenerational and intergenerational justice, and
• political systems that 1) fail to go beyond divisive debates between various “us” versus “them” contenders, 2) fail to generate diversity informed “all of us, interconnecting with each other” dialogues, and 3) fail to work to integrate what is good, true, and beautiful in the various contributions amongst various rightsholders.
Behind all of these existential crises, however, is our key metaphysical crisis in our understanding of Nature.
Is ‘NATURE’, the tribhuvana in the Vedic East, the tripartite kosmos in the Latin-Greek-West, composed of corpus-soma-body, anima-psyche-soul, and spiritus-pneuma-heart, altogether?
Or, do we continue to blind ourselves in believing ‘nature’ is simply reducible to limited measurable entities within modern Cartesian space-time?
Our choices decide our futures!

The popular movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ – a climate change allegory, featuring a comet crashing into earth – is provocative, funny, upsetting, at times, but seriously inadequate.
For many, techno-optimism is a way for evading the full predicament of our climate-ecological crises.
‘Don’t Look Up’ provides its own curious treatment of techno-optimism, ending with (oh, dear!) the gory consumption of a dim-witted naked American president by a hungry dinosaur!
Beyond various techno-optimisms championed by various techno-billionaires, there is, according to sustainability advocate Bill Baue, either ESG or Sustainability: You Choose.
Sustainability, however, receives no attention in ‘Don’t Look Up’.
Instead, the movie makes a naïve stand for science, without any awareness of science turning into scientism, which, some say, is another crucial factor in our climate-ecological crises.
Some philosophers of science, ignored for decades, have warned us about the dangers of Cartesian bifurcation, which results in the reduction of reality into abstract mathematical terms.
This drastic reduction of reality, also totally ignored in ‘Don’t Look Up’, ends with all of us waging our stupid all-consuming war on nature.
So, we ask here: what must we do to stop waging our stupid, degenerative, ever-escalating war on nature?

Time to make a choice: Life! Not extinction!
As Kate Raworth said at the 2019 Reporting 3.0 Conference,
"We have an economy that is degenerative by design. It is literally running down the living planet, on which we depend. We have to completely reinvent that to make it regenerative by design, so that we work with and within the cycles of the living world."
As Greta Thunberg said at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit, "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!
You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.
We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not."
Our choice here is life!
What can we do to reduce, stop, and eventually reverse global warming?
In our response, we attempt to envision and explore an Integrative Climate Emergency Plan.
Preferably sooner, rather than later, we need to learn to live and work with each other to reduce, stop, and eventually reverse anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming by transforming our current dysfunctional global capitalism and our inadequate triple bottom line multi-capitalisms into an integrative, multi-dimensional, multi-capitalism.
In their responses to global warming, the IPCC, and other climate change activists, like the Club of Rome and the Stockholm Resilience Centre, tend to propose mainly eco-social pathways for rapid decarbonisation in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
But, in the context of our integrative multi-dimensional multi-capitalism, many of these eco-social pathways miss much too much in waking up the heart-spirit and in growing up the body-mind in personal choices, interpersonal relations, and eco-social organisations in human beings.
To overcome global capitalism’s current excesses in undermining societies with its exclusive focus on making profits, with its constant promotion of overconsuming greed, and with its mindless marginalisation of its destructive impacts on people and planet with anthropogenic global warming and an intensifying biodiversity extinction crisis – which looks like, given recent scientific (IPCC and IPBES) reports on our increasingly dire climate and biodiversity crises, if we continue with our current business as usual practices, that it will include the human species – we need to establish, at personal, interpersonal, household, local, regional, national, and global scales, an integrative, open, inclusive, green, regenerative, cyclical, transparent, agile, finely tuned, multi-dimensional multi-capitalism that functions to serve the thriveability of each and all human and living beings within our planet's natural limits as soon as possible. 
In doing all of this, we will need to learn to live, grow, and work with each other within various habitats with various horizons on Mount Thriveability.
Also, if you are curious, see Exploring Mount Thriveability: Towards Integrative Thriveability Pt. 2.
For the latest developments in my understanding see From Our Global Pandemic in 2020 to Our Many Transformations in the 2020s: Transforming Out of Our Current Suffering into Wise Compassion and Compassionate Wisdom for Everybody.
We ask you to support our children in their efforts to secure their futures in their Global and Local Climate Actions.

Our Earth’s climate is shifting beyond our normal human experience. We are in the grip of increasingly lethal ecological turbulence. The latest report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states we have entered “unprecedented territory,” a “Code Red for Humanity.”
We can still regenerate living conditions for life to thrive but only if we act altogether now at appropriate scales in our various living contexts in our personal, inter-personal, and local to global social lives.
We must create a global Network of Regeneration to save ourselves.
The only antidote to extinction is regeneration. We can no longer be sustainable with our degraded environment. Humanity must proactively regenerate the world.
Regeneration must recognize, in tune with humanity’s wisdom traditions, that we are Nature (the tribhuvana, in the Vedic East; corpus-soma-body, anima-psyche-soul, and spiritus-pneuma-heart, in the Latin-Greek-West; know Thyself, in indigenous and religious worlds) and that we must now actively regenerate the world by inter-weaving our human activity in individuals (microcosms), inter-personal communities, and collective societies (mesocosms) within the bounds of our planetary matrices (macrocosms) so that we can create a nurturing web of regeneration of life with everybody for everybody around our planet Earth.

Here we are in our ongoing Covid crisis, with our inter-acting climate, biodiversity, resources, economic, and political crises, in our contested Weltanschauungs.
Nevertheless, humanity, each of us, all of us need to decide what we are going to do personally, inter-personally, and organisationally to stop acting out our current degenerative habits which are cascading all of us into our unfolding biodiversity and human extinction crises.
So we ask here: Do we have the vision and the will to regenerate both Nature and Humanity, or not?
We quote here from a statement, modified in significant ways, that can be found at Ubiquity University’s Master of Regenerative Action:
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The denigration of our planetary environment has reached a critical point — in the last 50 years there has been a 69% loss of biodiversity of animals, plants, birds, fish, insects, and forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This means that sustainability is no longer an option for Humanity. One cannot be sustainable with a destroyed habitat. The only option left for us is regeneration. Regenerative development is a holistic approach to development where the conditions for life are enhanced. Humans must re-vitalize, renew, and regenerate both communities and planet to ensure not only our survival but the survival of all species. Nature’s well-being and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human ecology is as broken and despoiled as Nature’s is. Both must be renewed immediately and synergistically. The nature and scope of our multiple crises – including the breaking of many ecological boundaries with escalating losses in biodiversity, disruptions of biogeochemical flows in phosphorous and nitrogen, ongoing failures in land and freshwater management, the crisis that has been called a Code Red for Humanity by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres, runaway climate change, and the urgent need for a comprehensive Breakthrough in global cooperation, discussed by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres in his “Our Common Agenda” report – leave each of us, all of us in Humanity with no other choice. We must work with each other to regenerate or we will perish.
In our discussion, we introduce many important considerations, grounded in Humanity's wisdom traditions, that continue to be ignored in many current proposals for regeneration. Nevertheless,  these considerations grounded in wisdom and compassion must be included in any truly integrative understanding of both Nature's and Humanity's Heartful Regeneration.

The popular movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ – a climate change allegory, featuring a comet crashing into earth – is provocative, funny, upsetting, at times, but seriously inadequate.
Techno-optimism, however, for many people is a way for them to evade the full predicament of our climate-ecological crises.
‘Don’t Look Up’ provides its own curious treatment of techno-optimism, ending with (oh, dear!) the gory consumption of a dim-witted naked American president by a hungry dinosaur!
Beyond various techno-optimisms, championed by various techno-billionaires, there is, according to systems transformation catalyst Bill Baue, either ESG (more blah! blah! blah! or Sustainability: You Choose.
Whoops! Notice that sustainability receives no attention in ‘Don’t Look Up’.
Instead, the movie makes a naïve stand for science, without any awareness of the ways science turns into scientism, which, some say, is another crucial factor in our climate-ecological crises.
Some philosophers of science, ignored for decades, continue to warn us about the dangers of Cartesian bifurcation, which results in the drastic reduction of reality into abstract mathematical terms.
Such drastic reduction of reality, also ignored in ‘Don’t Look Up’, ends with all of us waging our stupid all-consuming war on nature.
So, we need to work with each other with A New Global Agreement for the Regeneration of Life in All Living Beings on Our Planet.
We need to work altogether to change our current degenerative ways of living into truly regenerative ways of living.
We must stop waging our current, stupid, ever-escalating, degenerative war on nature.
This paper is a reduced version of We Need Many Warriors Working Altogether for the Regeneration of Life in All Living Beings on Our Planet.

‘Don’t Look Up’ – the climate change parable, featuring a comet crashing into earth – is provocative, funny, very upsetting, at times, but inadequate.
Techno-optimism is a popular way for evading the full predicament of our climate-ecological crises.
‘Don’t Look Up’ provides its own curious critique of techno-optimism, ending with (oh, dear!) the gory consumption of a dim-witted naked American president by a hungry dinosaur!
Beyond techno-optimisms championed by techno-billionaires, there is, according to Bill Baue, either ESG or Sustainability: You Choose.
Neither ESG nor sustainability, however, receive any attention in ‘Don’t Look Up’.
Instead, the movie makes a naïve stand for science, without any awareness of scientism, which, some say, is another crucial factor in our climate-ecological crises.
Philosophers of science, ignored for decades, have warned us about the dangers of Cartesian bifurcation, which results in the reduction of reality into abstract mathematical terms.
This drastic reduction of reality, totally ignored in ‘Don’t Look Up’, ends with all of us waging our all-consuming stupid war on nature.
So, let us ask here: what must we do to stop waging our degenerative, ever-escalating, stupid war on nature?

In June 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their co-sponsored report with the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Their prognosis is not good, if we do not take necessary action.
“Human-caused climate change is increasingly threatening nature and its contributions to people, including its ability to help mitigate climate change. The warmer the world gets, the less food, drinking water and other key contributions nature can make to our lives, in many regions” said Prof. Hans-Otto Pörtner, co-chair of the Scientific Steering Committee. “Changes in biodiversity, in turn, affect climate, especially through impacts on nitrogen, carbon and water cycles,” he said. “The evidence is clear: a sustainable global future for people and nature is still achievable, but it requires transformative change with rapid and far-reaching actions of a type never before attempted, building on ambitious emissions reductions. Solving some of the strong and apparently unavoidable trade-offs between climate and biodiversity will entail a profound collective shift of individual and shared values concerning nature – such as moving away from the conception of economic progress based solely on GDP growth, to one that balances human development with multiple values of nature for a good quality of life, while not overshooting biophysical and social limits.”
As individuals in our various inter-personal communities in our various collective societies, WE NEED TO DECIDE NOW, do we want to continue, or not, with our current degenerative ways of living, exploiting both nature and human beings in unsustainable ways by wilful design in pursuit of reckless economic growth, defined in diverse ways at local, national, and global scales as GDP, CSR, ESG, irresponsible greed, outrageous intragenerational and intergenerational injustices et al.?
Much better than continuing with our many currents in escalating ecocide and with our resultant increasing intensifying episodes of horrifying humanicide, which can be seen everywhere, most significantly with the general loss of Heart-Centred Values within modern, postmodern, and metamodern communities, we need to decide as individuals in our various communities in our various local, regional, national, and global societies to work with each other to move out of our current degenerative ways of living to regenerate in individuals and communities the refreshing Beauty, Goodness, Truth, and other precious Divine Qualities that can be found in our Full Humanity and in the Wholeness of Nature.
One option opens into valuable thriving futures, leading into happiness for each and all; the other does not, remaining stuck in ceaseless compounding suffering.

All of us, at present, are living in a linear, take, use, waste economy, promoted as Business-As-Usual (BAU), measured as economic growth in GDP.                 
Thus, all of us are participating in various ways in the destruction of our natural environments, violating ecological boundaries, violating provisions of basic social foundations to everybody with everybody, violating our best intuitions of Beauty, Goodness, Truth, and Unity, and thus all of us are destroying the necessary bases of liveable futures for current and future generations.
Time to turn to Thresholds-Based Thinking and Action (https://www.r3-0.org/gtac/).
Time to enliven Nature.
Time to ennoble the best in human beings.

The popular movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ – a climate change allegory, featuring a comet crashing into earth – is provocative, funny, upsetting, at times, but seriously inadequate.
‘Don’t Look Up’ provides its own curious treatment of techno-optimism, ending with (oh, dear!) the gory consumption of a dim-witted naked American president by a hungry dinosaur!
Techno-optimism, however, for many people is a way for them to evade the full predicament of our climate-ecological crises.
Beyond various techno-optimisms, championed by various techno-billionaires, there is, according to systems transformation catalyst Bill Baue, either ESG (more blah blah blah!) or Sustainability: You Choose.
Whoops! Notice that sustainability receives no attention in ‘Don’t Look Up’.
Instead, the movie makes a naïve stand for science, without any awareness of the ways science turns into scientism, which, some say, is another crucial factor in our climate-ecological crises.
Some philosophers of science, ignored for decades, continue to warn us about the dangers of Cartesian bifurcation, which results in the drastic reduction of reality into abstract mathematical terms.
Such drastic reduction of reality, also ignored in ‘Don’t Look Up’, ends with all of us waging our stupid all-consuming war on nature.
So, we need Global Cooperation for the Regeneration of Life in All Living Beings on Our Planet.
We need to work to change our current degenerative ways of living into truly regenerative ways of living, enabling what all of us must do to stop waging our current, stupid, ever-escalating, degenerative war on nature.

The popular movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ – a climate change allegory, featuring a comet crashing into earth – is provocative, funny, upsetting, at times, but seriously inadequate.
Techno-optimism, however, for many people is a way for them to evade the full predicament of our climate-ecological crises.
‘Don’t Look Up’ provides its own curious treatment of techno-optimism, ending with (oh, dear!) the gory consumption of a dim-witted naked American president by a hungry dinosaur!
Beyond various techno-optimisms, championed by various techno-billionaires, there is, according to systems transformation catalyst Bill Baue, either ESG (more blah! blah! blah! or Sustainability: You Choose.
Whoops! Notice that sustainability receives no attention in ‘Don’t Look Up’.
Instead, the movie makes a naïve stand for science, without any awareness of the ways science turns into scientism, which, some say, is another crucial factor in our climate-ecological crises.
Some philosophers of science, ignored for decades, continue to warn us about the dangers of Cartesian bifurcation, which results in the drastic reduction of reality into abstract mathematical terms.
Such drastic reduction of reality, also ignored in ‘Don’t Look Up’, ends with all of us waging our stupid all-consuming war on nature.
So, we need to work with each other with A New Global Agreement for the Regeneration of Life in All Living Beings on Our Planet.
We need to work altogether to change our current degenerative ways of living into truly regenerative ways of living.
We must stop waging our current, stupid, ever-escalating, degenerative war on nature!

What we have failed to do, Christiana Figueres, chief architect of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, says is to capture people’s imaginations with a vision of what a new world could be like:
“What I think we have been lacking is to be able to paint the picture to really build out in people's imagination what is an economy like Australia going to be like 10, 15 years from now when it has moved over to renewables? What does it mean for the quality of cities? What does it mean for the quality of agriculture? What does it mean for the Great Barrier Reef? What does it mean for camping in the bush safely without having to worry about ... fires? It is a much, much healthier, longer term, stable economy that we can definitely build, and must be built. But we haven't painted that picture very well. Hence, if you do not have a visual destination of the positive world that you want to construct, it's very difficult for people to gravitate there.”
So we must dream.
“Obviously, the doom and gloom makes us concerned, helpless, hopeless, despair, grief, all that family of sentiments that are important because we have to understand what is out there,” she said. “But we have not been able to point to the fact that actually now in this decade we are in the most consequential decade of the history of humankinds. Because over the next 10 years we will decide whether we are at one half the global emissions in order to be able to move on to much, much better healthier, safer more stable world. That is going to be determined over the next 10 years. And Australia has to be part of that transformation.” (Julia Baird, Sydney Morning Herald, Christiana Figueres's superpower could save the planet).
Now, we add here, everybody on our planet, currently being overwhelmed by the global Covid-19 pandemic, needs to be encouraged to participate in many necessary global transformations in moving out of our current suffering into wise compassion and compassionate wisdom for everybody.

Many of us recognise that humanity faces the greatest emergency in our existence – a crisis far deeper and more complex than many of us are able to recognise.
Our emergency comprises many catastrophic risks, including resource scarcity, ecological collapse and extinction, global overheating, food insecurity, weapons of mass destruction, global and local pollution with ongoing poisoning of air, waters and lands, pandemic diseases, population overgrowth, and uncontrolled new technologies.
Underlying these risks is widespread apathy to Beauty, Goodness, Truth, and a Sense of the Sacred in All Living Beings on our Planet, with many people trapped in all sorts of collective and individual delusions.
Many voices have raised their concerns about these threats – and here I add mine to them.
These risks are all interlinked. None of them can be solved simply in isolation. However, they can be overcome – with universal cooperation, persistent goodwill, and bold determination.
No government yet has a comprehensive plan for dealing with these inter-acting sets of risks that endanger our civilization, our own and children’s futures, and life on our Planet as an abundant ecosystem and home for all species.
Here we call on the governments, institutions, cultures, and peoples of our Planet to develop a clear plan and a pathway for Human Survival in the 21st century, URGENTLY.
We also urge the propagation of local and worldwide discourses across and amongst diverse actors, with all of us working, planning, and acting NOW, to address all of these risks, altogether, in ways that make none of them worse.
Here we make a delicately nuanced attempt to envision fairer, safer, healthier, and more sustainable futures for all peoples and all living beings on our Planet.
(Adapted from a recent The Council for the Human Future statement)

Here we are in our ongoing Covid crisis, with our inter-acting climate, biodiversity, resources, economic, and political crises, in our contested Weltanschauungs.
Nevertheless, humanity, each of us, all of us need to decide what we are going to do personally, inter-personally, and organisationally to stop acting out our current degenerative habits which are cascading all of us into our unfolding biodiversity and human extinction crises.
So we ask here: Do we have the vision and the will to regenerate both Nature and Humanity, or not?
We quote here from a statement, modified in significant ways, that can be found at Ubiquity University’s Master of Regenerative Action:
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The denigration of our planetary environment has reached a critical point — in the last 50 years there has been a 69% loss of biodiversity of animals, plants, birds, fish, insects, and forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This means that sustainability is no longer an option for Humanity. One cannot be sustainable with a destroyed habitat. The only option left for us is regeneration. Regenerative development is a holistic approach to development where the conditions for life are enhanced. Humans must re-vitalize, renew, and regenerate both communities and planet to ensure not only our survival but the survival of all species. Nature’s well-being and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human ecology is as broken and despoiled as Nature’s is. Both must be renewed immediately and synergistically. The nature and scope of our multiple crises – including the breaking of many ecological boundaries with escalating losses in biodiversity, disruptions of biogeochemical flows in phosphorous and nitrogen, ongoing failures in land and freshwater management, the crisis that has been called a Code Red for Humanity by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres, runaway climate change, and the urgent need for a comprehensive Breakthrough in global cooperation, discussed by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres in his “Our Common Agenda” report – leave each of us, all of us in Humanity with no other choice. We must work with each other to regenerate or we will perish.
Here we work on a Regenerative Climate Action Plan, presented in six sections, introducing many important considerations, grounded in Humanity's wisdom traditions, that continue to be ignored in many current proposals for regenerative action. Nevertheless,  these considerations must be included in any truly integrative understanding of both Nature's and Humanity's Heartful Regeneration.

Here we are in our ongoing Covid crisis, with our inter-acting climate, biodiversity, resources, economic, and political crises, in our contested Weltanschauungs.
Nevertheless, humanity, each of us, all of us need to decide what we are going to do personally, inter-personally, and organisationally to stop acting out our current degenerative habits which are cascading all of us into our unfolding biodiversity and human extinction crises.
So we ask here: Do we have the vision and the will to regenerate both Nature and Humanity, or not?
We quote here from a statement, modified in significant ways, that can be found at Ubiquity University’s Master of Regenerative Action:
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The denigration of our planetary environment has reached a critical point — in the last 50 years there has been a 69% loss of biodiversity of animals, plants, birds, fish, insects, and forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This means that sustainability is no longer an option for Humanity. One cannot be sustainable with a destroyed habitat. The only option left for us is regeneration. Regenerative development is a holistic approach to development where the conditions for life are enhanced. Humans must re-vitalize, renew, and regenerate both communities and planet to ensure not only our survival but the survival of all species. Nature’s well-being and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human ecology is as broken and despoiled as Nature’s is. Both must be renewed immediately and synergistically. The nature and scope of our multiple crises – including the breaking of many ecological boundaries with escalating losses in biodiversity, disruptions of biogeochemical flows in phosphorous and nitrogen, ongoing failures in land and freshwater management, the crisis that has been called a Code Red for Humanity by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres, runaway climate change, and the urgent need for a comprehensive Breakthrough in global cooperation, discussed by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres in his “Our Common Agenda” report – leave each of us, all of us in Humanity with no other choice. We must work with each other to regenerate or we will perish.
Here we work on a Regenerative Climate Action Plan, presented in six sections, introducing many important considerations, grounded in Humanity's wisdom traditions, that continue to be ignored in many current proposals for regenerative action. Nevertheless,  these considerations grounded in wisdom and compassion must be included in any truly integrative understanding of both Nature's and Humanity's Heartful Regeneration.

Here we are in our ongoing Covid crisis, with our inter-acting climate, biodiversity, resources, economic, and political crises, in our contested Weltanschauungs.
Nevertheless, humanity, each of us, all of us need to decide what we are going to do personally, inter-personally, and organisationally to stop acting out our current degenerative habits which are cascading all of us into our unfolding biodiversity and human extinction crises.
So we ask here: Do we have the vision and the will to regenerate both Nature and Humanity, or not?
We quote here from a statement, modified in significant ways, that can be found at Ubiquity University’s Master of Regenerative Action:
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The denigration of our planetary environment has reached a critical point — in the last 50 years there has been a 69% loss of biodiversity of animals, plants, birds, fish, insects, and forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This means that sustainability is no longer an option for Humanity. One cannot be sustainable with a destroyed habitat. The only option left for us is regeneration. Regenerative development is a holistic approach to development where the conditions for life are enhanced. Humans must re-vitalize, renew, and regenerate both communities and planet to ensure not only our survival but the survival of all species. Nature’s well-being and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human ecology is as broken and despoiled as Nature’s is. Both must be renewed immediately and synergistically. The nature and scope of our multiple crises – including the breaking of many ecological boundaries with escalating losses in biodiversity, disruptions of biogeochemical flows in phosphorous and nitrogen, ongoing failures in land and freshwater management, the crisis that has been called a Code Red for Humanity by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres, runaway climate change, and the urgent need for a comprehensive Breakthrough in global cooperation, discussed by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres in his “Our Common Agenda” report – leave each of us, all of us in Humanity with no other choice. We must work with each other to regenerate or we will perish.
Here we work on a Regenerative Climate Action Plan, presented in six sections, introducing many important considerations, grounded in Humanity's wisdom traditions, that continue to be ignored in many current proposals for regenerative action. Nevertheless,  these considerations grounded in wisdom and compassion must be included in any truly integrative understanding of both Nature's and Humanity's Heartful Regeneration.

In April 2022, Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) released Doughnut Unrolled.
Doughnut Unrolled envisions ecological ceilings and social foundations within local and global contexts.
Economic growth through maximising profits tends to be the primary or only focus of current dominant schools of economics.
Thus, living in a more sustainable way or perhaps in a regenerative way, within ecological ceilings and with social foundations, tends to be either marginalised or totally ignored in these economic schools.
But, when we unpack Doughnut Economics, we notice that, in tune with western Cartesian assumptions, it only looks at measurable variables.
So, what does Doughnut Economics marginalise, dis-count, ignore?
Much too much I’m afraid!
Nature, understood as the tribhuvana in the Vedic East and tripartite kosmos (body, soul, and Spirit) in the Latin-Greek-West, is marginalised, dis-counted, ignored! 
Stages-levels-layers of human development from baby to child to adult to mature adult also do not count!
Human subjective interiors in individuals and inter-subjective interiors in various cultures do not count!
What we find hidden within Doughnut Economics, and within current dominant schools of economics, is the assumption of Cartesian bifurcation!
So, all sorts of Qualities are marginalised, dis-counted, ignored!
Here is an initial attempt to connect these neglected variables in Doughnut Economics with living, in a more sustainable way or perhaps in a regenerative way, within ecological ceilings and with social foundations.

Here we provide a (6p) summary of an Integrative Climate Emergency Plan.
For a fuller version of this Integrative Climate Emergency Plan, see The Safe Climate Declaration Revisited - Our Master Code - Take Care of Self, Others, Country, City, Planet.
We ask you to support our children in their efforts to secure their lives in our common futures in their Global Climate Actions.

Our planet Earth’s climate is shifting beyond our normal human experience. We are in the grip of increasingly lethal ecological turbulence. The latest report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states we have entered “unprecedented territory,” a “Code Red for Humanity.”
Our only antidote to the threat of extinction is regeneration. We can no longer be sustainable with our current degraded and degrading environments. Humanity must work to proactively regenerate the world.
We can still regenerate living conditions for life to thrive but only if we act altogether now in life-affirming ways in our various living contexts in our personal lives, inter-personal communities, and local, regional, national, and global societies.
We must create a global Network of Regeneration to save ourselves.
Regeneration must recognize, in tune with humanity’s deep experience in wisdom traditions, that we are Nature (the tribhuvana, in the Vedic East; corpus-soma-body, anima-psyche-soul, and spiritus-pneuma-heart, in the Latin-Greek-West; know Thyself, in indigenous and religious worlds) and that we must now actively regenerate the world by inter-weaving our human activity in individuals (microcosms), inter-personal communities, and collective societies (mesocosms) within the ecological bounds of our planetary matrices (macrocosms) so that we can create a nurturing web of regeneration of life with everybody for everybody around our planet Earth.

Here we are in our ongoing Covid crisis, with our inter-acting climate, biodiversity, resources, economic, and political crises, in our contested Weltanschauungs.
Nevertheless, humanity, each of us, all of us need to decide what we are going to do personally, inter-personally, and organisationally to stop acting out our current degenerative habits which are cascading all of us into our unfolding biodiversity and human extinction crises.
So we ask here: Do we have the vision and the will to regenerate both Nature and Humanity, or not?
We quote here from a statement, modified in significant ways, that can be found at Ubiquity University’s Master of Regenerative Action:
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The denigration of our planetary environment has reached a critical point — in the last 50 years there has been a 69% loss of biodiversity of animals, plants, birds, fish, insects, and forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This means that sustainability is no longer an option for Humanity. One cannot be sustainable with a destroyed habitat. The only option left for us is regeneration. Regenerative development is a holistic approach to development where the conditions for life are enhanced. Humans must re-vitalize, renew, and regenerate both communities and planet to ensure not only our survival but the survival of all species. Nature’s well-being and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human ecology is as broken and despoiled as Nature’s is. Both must be renewed immediately and synergistically. The nature and scope of our multiple crises – including the breaking of many ecological boundaries with escalating losses in biodiversity, disruptions of biogeochemical flows in phosphorous and nitrogen, ongoing failures in land and freshwater management, the crisis that has been called a Code Red for Humanity by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres, runaway climate change, and the urgent need for a comprehensive Breakthrough in global cooperation, discussed by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres in his “Our Common Agenda” report – leave each of us, all of us in Humanity with no other choice. We must work with each other to regenerate or we will perish.
Here we work on a Regenerative Climate Action Plan, presented in six sections, introducing many important considerations, grounded in Humanity's wisdom traditions, that continue to be ignored in many current proposals for regenerative action. Nevertheless,  these considerations grounded in wisdom and compassion must be included in any truly integrative understanding of both Nature's and Humanity's Heartful Regeneration.

From our ongoing Covid crisis to our inter-acting climate, biodiversity, resources, economic, and political crises, in our contested Weltanschauungs, humanity, all of us, each of us, needs to decide what we are going to do personally, inter-personally, and organisationally to stop acting out our current degenerative habits that are cascading all of us into our unfolding human extinction crisis.
We ask here: Do we have the vision and the will to regenerate both Nature and humanity, or not?
We quote from a statement, modified in significant ways, that can be found at Ubiquity University’s Master of Regenerative Action:
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The denigration of our planetary environment has reached a critical point — in the last 50 years there has been a 69% loss of biodiversity of animals, plants, birds, fish, insects, and forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This means that sustainability is no longer an option for humanity. One cannot be sustainable with a destroyed habitat. The only option left for us is regeneration. Regenerative Development is a holistic approach to development where the conditions for life are enhanced. Humans must re-vitalize, renew, and regenerate both community and planet to ensure not only our survival but the survival of all species. Nature’s well-being and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human ecology is as broken and despoiled as Nature’s is. Both must be renewed immediately and synergistically. The nature and scope of our multiple crises – including the breaking of many planetary boundaries with escalating losses in biodiversity, rampant disruptions of biogeochemical flows in phosphorous and nitrogen, massive failures in land and freshwater management, and the crisis that has been called a Code Red for humanity, runaway climate change, detailed in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report – leave humanity with no other choice. We must regenerate or perish.
In this paper, we engage with many important multi-cultural considerations, grounded in humanity's wisdom traditions, that continue to be ignored in many current versions of regeneration, but these multi-cultural considerations must be included in any truly integrative understanding of both humanity's and Nature's Heartful Regeneration.

People grow in their lives from child to adolescent to adult to, perhaps, sage, making meaning in all sorts of ways at each stage-level-layer in their personal, inter-personal, and organisational development.
Children tend to pay attention to their sensory experiences in seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching all sorts of things in their immediate sensory worlds.
Many adults tend to pay more attention to their subtle thinking and feeling about all sorts of thinking and feeling.
Some adults tend to centre in a heartful wakefulness beyond gross sensory experiences and subtle thoughts and feelings yet includes with compassion and wisdom their gross and subtle experiences.
Let’s now ask here: When people talk about climate change and creating a safe climate world, what are they referring to in their world of meaning-making?
Are they referring mostly to their immediate sensory experiences of weather, such as more or less rain, sunshine, temperature, and wind today, this week, this month, this year, or over a number of years, decades, or centuries?
Or, are they referring to their hard-won educated understanding of subtle changes revealed and seen in climate sciences, such as changes in records in patterns of measurement in various streams of data over many years, decades, centuries or millenia?
Or, are they referring to their awareness of awareness, which includes various ways of meaning-making in seeing subtle changes in epistemic views, methods of inquiry, seen outcomes in valued productions in various increasingly re-defined disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, or trans-disciplinary readings of climate patterns on our planet?
Can we try, here and now, to work to see, inhabit, integrate, and hold altogether in our hearts, in our local, national and global groups, and in our various organisations, the various ways of meaning-making people enact in relation to climate change and try to enact in creating a safe climate world for the whole of life in body, mind, and spirit in all beings?
Looks like, in our current climate-ecological emergency, we need many more human beings to wake up into the profound universal heart of all beings, which reveals our oneness with all living beings, and to grow up our body-minds to become fully alive human beings with truly integrative identities with fully regenerative capabilities that are in mindful and heartful service for the well-being of all forms of life on our beloved planet.
For the latest developments in my understanding see From Our Global Pandemic in 2020 to Our Many Transformations in the 2020s: Transforming Out of Our Current Suffering into Wise Compassion and Compassionate Wisdom for Everybody.
We ask you to support our children in their efforts to secure their futures in their Global and Local Climate Actions.

In inhabiting Cartesian principles (res extensae and res cogitantes), modern, postmodern, and metamodern individuals, cultures, and organisations have erected life philosophies that diminish or deny the non-modern understanding of existence.
Modern, postmodern, and metamodern individuals, cultures, and organisations effectively reduce spiritus-pneuma-heart, anima-psyche-soul, and corpus-soma-body in all living beings down to their lowest level of “material matter” — or as mathematician-philosopher Alfred North Whitehead famously lamented, into “a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colourless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly.”
Consequently, around our planet, at present, all of us are living with a degenerative global-linear-extract-produce-use-waste economy, promoted in Business-As-Usual as economic growth in GDP, where most people, and life on our planet, do not count.
Thus, all of us are participating in numerous ways in the ongoing destruction of our Ecological Matrices around our planet, violating ecological boundaries for plants, animals, and humans on our planet, violating fair provisions of basic social foundations for every person and every community with all living beings on our planet, violating our better principles of Unity, Beauty, Goodness, Truth, and Integrity.
And thus, in numerous ways, we are destroying the necessary bases of liveable futures for current and future generations.
Time to transform out of our degenerative global-linear-extract-produce-use-waste economy into fully regenerative ways of living for all living beings on our planet.
Time to work, for example, to generate liveable living conditions with Thresholds-Based Thinking and Action (https://www.r3-0.org/gtac/).
Time to Enliven Nature’s Beauty, Goodness, and Truth.
Time to Ennoble the Very Best Integrity in Human Beings.

So, here we are in our ongoing Covid crisis, with our inter-acting climate, biodiversity, resources, economic, and political crises, in our contested Weltanschauungs.
Nevertheless, each of us, all of us, need to decide what we are going to do personally, inter-personally, and organisationally to stop acting out our current degenerative habits which are cascading all of us into our unfolding biodiversity and human extinction crises.
So we ask here: Do we have the vision and the will to regenerate both Nature and Humanity, or not?
We quote here from a statement, modified in significant ways, that can be found at Ubiquity University’s Master of Regenerative Action:
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The denigration of our planetary environment has reached a critical point — in the last 50 years there has been a 69% loss of biodiversity of animals, plants, birds, fish, insects, and forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This means that sustainability is no longer an option for Humanity. One cannot be sustainable with a destroyed habitat. The only option left for us is regeneration. Regenerative development is a holistic approach to development where the conditions for life are enhanced. Humans must re-vitalize, renew, and regenerate both communities and planet to ensure not only our survival but the survival of all species. Nature’s well-being and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human ecology is as broken and despoiled as Nature’s is. Both must be renewed immediately and synergistically. The nature and scope of our multiple crises – including the breaking of ecological boundaries with escalating losses in biodiversity, disruptions of biogeochemical flows in phosphorous and nitrogen, ongoing failures in land and freshwater management, the crisis that has been called a Code Red for Humanity by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres, runaway climate change, and the urgent need for a comprehensive breakthrough in global cooperation, discussed by the UN Sec-Gen in his “Our Common Agenda” report – leave all of us in Humanity with no other choice. We must work with each other to regenerate or we will perish.
Here we work on a Regenerative Action Plan, introducing many important considerations, grounded in Humanity's wisdom traditions, that continue to be ignored in many current proposals for regenerative action. Nevertheless,  these considerations grounded in wisdom and compassion must be included in any truly integrative understanding of both Nature's and Humanity's Heartful Regeneration.

Here we are in our ongoing Covid crisis, with our inter-acting climate, biodiversity, resources, economic, and political crises, in our contested Weltanschauungs.
Nevertheless, humanity, each of us, all of us need to decide what we are going to do personally, inter-personally, and organisationally to stop acting out our current degenerative habits which are cascading all of us into our unfolding biodiversity and human extinction crises.
So we ask here: Do we have the vision and the will to regenerate both Nature and Humanity, or not?
We quote here from a statement, modified in significant ways, that can be found at Ubiquity University’s Master of Regenerative Action:
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The denigration of our planetary environment has reached a critical point — in the last 50 years there has been a 69% loss of biodiversity of animals, plants, birds, fish, insects, and forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This means that sustainability is no longer an option for Humanity. One cannot be sustainable with a destroyed habitat. The only option left for us is regeneration. Regenerative development is a holistic approach to development where the conditions for life are enhanced. Humans must re-vitalize, renew, and regenerate both communities and planet to ensure not only our survival but the survival of all species. Nature’s well-being and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human ecology is as broken and despoiled as Nature’s is. Both must be renewed immediately and synergistically. The nature and scope of our multiple crises – including the breaking of many ecological boundaries with escalating losses in biodiversity, disruptions of biogeochemical flows in phosphorous and nitrogen, ongoing failures in land and freshwater management, the crisis that has been called a Code Red for Humanity by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres, runaway climate change, and the urgent need for a comprehensive Breakthrough in global cooperation, discussed by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres in his “Our Common Agenda” report – leave each of us, all of us in Humanity with no other choice. We must work with each other to regenerate or we will perish.
Here we work on a Regenerative Climate Action Plan, presented in six sections, introducing many important considerations, grounded in Humanity's wisdom traditions, that continue to be ignored in many current proposals for regenerative action. Nevertheless,  these considerations grounded in wisdom and compassion must be included in any truly integrative understanding of both Nature's and Humanity's Heartful Regeneration.

Here we are in our ongoing Covid crisis, with our inter-acting climate, biodiversity, resources, economic, and political crises, in our contested Weltanschauungs.
Nevertheless, humanity, each of us, all of us need to decide what we are going to do personally, inter-personally, and organisationally to stop acting out our current degenerative habits which are cascading all of us into our unfolding biodiversity and human extinction crises.
So we ask here: Do we have the vision and the will to regenerate both Nature and Humanity, or not?
We quote here from a statement, modified in significant ways, that can be found at Ubiquity University’s Master of Regenerative Action:
The Fierce Urgency of Now: The denigration of our planetary environment has reached a critical point — in the last 50 years there has been a 69% loss of biodiversity of animals, plants, birds, fish, insects, and forests, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This means that sustainability is no longer an option for Humanity. One cannot be sustainable with a destroyed habitat. The only option left for us is regeneration. Regenerative development is a holistic approach to development where the conditions for life are enhanced. Humans must re-vitalize, renew, and regenerate both communities and planet to ensure not only our survival but the survival of all species. Nature’s well-being and human well-being are inextricably linked. Human ecology is as broken and despoiled as Nature’s is. Both must be renewed immediately and synergistically. The nature and scope of our multiple crises – including the breaking of many ecological boundaries with escalating losses in biodiversity, disruptions of biogeochemical flows in phosphorous and nitrogen, ongoing failures in land and freshwater management, the crisis that has been called a Code Red for Humanity by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres, runaway climate change, and the urgent need for a comprehensive Breakthrough in global cooperation, discussed by UN Sec-Gen António Guterres in his “Our Common Agenda” report – leave each of us, all of us in Humanity with no other choice. We must work with each other to regenerate or we will perish.
Here we work on a Regenerative Climate Action Plan, presented in six sections, introducing many important considerations, grounded in Humanity's wisdom traditions, that continue to be ignored in many current proposals for regenerative action. Nevertheless,  these considerations grounded in wisdom and compassion must be included in any truly integrative understanding of both Nature's and Humanity's Heartful Regeneration.

Let me quote Marianne Williamson:
“We have been so drunk on the pleasures of the material world, so sold on an amoral view of economics and social policy, and so worshipful of the false god of short-term profit. Our entire economic system has been based not on loving one another but on exploiting one another, and not on stewarding the Earth but on raping it, all for the most rapacious goal of extracting whatever money we could. And there, in our collective iniquity, lies the root of our problems, as well as the beginning of their solution, should we have the courage to face it.”
All around us we can see how our many growing inter-acting crises are symptoms, that have been exacerbated by our economy, of a way of living which was designed with a way of understanding the world that we now know to be hugely destructive to life.
All around us we can see that our economy exploits the natural world and the most marginalised to the point of collapse, and wrecks all our hopes for leading meaningful, fulfilling lives.
It’s time for a new design.
It’s time to transform from degenerative to regenerative ways of living.

The escalating rise in the unsustainable exploitation of nature’s resources in recent decades, and the impending exhaustion of many crucial much needed resources within coming decades, as predicted by the latest WORLD7 global Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) (Harald Sverdrup and Anna Olafsdottir), places everybody in humanity within very dangerous living conditions.
Even worse many governments continue to show that they do not know what to do to address our current interacting social and ecological crises in health, in education, in economics, in local, regional, and global ecologies, and in governance, that many governments are indeed, in Robert Kegan's terms, "In Over Their Heads."
Do they
1) continue with their current economic habits in supporting the economics and profit-making of current service providers as the highest priority?
2) change out of their current economic habits to take seriously the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns of various stakeholders?
3) transform from focusing on economic growth, on GDP, in current economic priorities to placing attention on Wellbeing Economics (Scotland, New Zealand, Iceland, Wales), or on Doughnut Economics (Amsterdam now, Copenhagen, and in other places, soon), or, even better, in my view, on r3.0's economic Redesign for Resilience and Regeneration?
4) center in the Divine Presence and learn with all of us in humanity's wisdom traditions to practise deep wisdom and universal compassion for everybody?
Select which one of these four options you think a government needs to use to navigate their way through the crucial challenges coming in the 2020s.
Our attention here is on the Divine Presence option, which must include what is good in each of any other option.
We observe here that our current health, social, economic, educational, climate, and ecological crises are being understood in varying ways depending on the levels of knowing (body in space and time, soul in time, spirit-heart-center in timelessness) that are awake in the seer, the methods or ways of knowing (senses, thinking-feeling, noetic heart) that are being used by the seer, and the levels of reality (body-surface, soul-intermediary, spirit-heart-center) that are being seen by the seer.
Our current health, social, economic, educational, climate, and ecological crises, therefore, are understood here not as technological problems, as they tend to be so often the case for rational (ego) economic man, nor as living systems design problems, as they tend to be so often the case for living (eco) systems designers.
Our current health, social, economic, educational, climate, and ecological crises are happening because many people are not learning to make conscious the Divine Presence (the various degrees of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth in Nature and Humanity) in one’s self, in our communities, and in all Beings, and thus many people are not learning to live in harmony with Sat-Chit-Ananda (Being-Consciousness-Happiness) in Humanity and Nature.
Our proposed solutions to our current health, social, economic, educational, climate, and ecological crises are to find our various ways within humanity's various wisdom traditions from here to enlightenment.

Our planet’s climate is shifting beyond our normal human experience. We are in the grip of increasingly lethal ecological turbulence. The latest report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states we have entered “unprecedented territory,” a “Code Red for Humanity.”
Our only antidote to the threat of extinction is regeneration. We can no longer be sustainable with our current degraded and degrading environments.
Humanity must work to proactively regenerate life on our planet.
We can still regenerate living conditions for life to thrive but only if we act altogether now in life-affirming ways in our various living contexts in our personal lives, inter-personal communities, and local, regional, national, and global societies.
We must create a global Network of Regeneration to save ourselves.
Regeneration must recognize, in tune with deep experience in humanity’s wisdom traditions, that we are Nature (the tribhuvana, in the Vedic East; corpus-soma-body, anima-psyche-soul, and spiritus-pneuma-heart, in the Latin-Greek-West; know Thyself, in indigenous and religious worlds) and that we must now actively regenerate the world by inter-weaving our human activity in individuals (microcosms), and interpersonal communities and collective societies (mesocosms) within the ecological bounds of our planetary matrices (macrocosms) so that we can create a nurturing web of regeneration of life for everybody with everybody around our planet Earth.

Here we ask: Why is it so that we, human beings, cannot organise ourselves to stop our escalating ecocide in biodiversity, and our intensifying humanicide in humanity?
UN Secretary General António Guterres, speaking at the Climate Ambition Summit 2020, with the critical intention in mind to work to stop our "suicidal" war on the natural world, called on governments worldwide to declare a "state of climate emergency" and make good on their Paris Climate Agreement promises to slash carbon pollution.
He warned that current commitments of governments were "far from enough" to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
"If we don't change course, we may be headed for a catastrophic temperature rise of more than 3.0 degrees Celsius this century," he said.
"That is why today, I call on all leaders worldwide to declare a state of climate emergency in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached," he added.
David Attenborough, in his documentaries, Extinction, Climate Change: The Facts, and David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, presents his telling stories about the devastating environmental consequences of humanity’s rapid economic and population growth in recent decades.
He laments the tragic decline of life on Earth and states emphatically, “Our planet is headed for disaster. WE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO WORK WITH NATURE; rather than against it.”
But, as we can see here with these words, David Attenborough treats nature as an "it", which is a common W.E.I.R.D. mindset bias, an over 400 year old modern habit, that restricts Divine Nature (spiritus-anima-corpus in macrocosm, mesocosm, and microcosm) to scientific forms of rationality that focus on measuring entities; he does not treat Nature as a sacred "Thou", revered in personal meaning-making, and celebrated in inter-personal relations in sacred worlds (Namaste: the Divine in One recognises and celebrates the Divine in an Other).
Let us say here: people with a sense of the sacred around the world consider Divine Nature to be a sacred "Thou" with innate dignity, involving precious displays of beauty, goodness, and truth, with never to be taken for granted, nor ignorantly abused, everlasting, divine values.
In this paper we will spend some time putting into place an understanding of integrative thriveability for everybody with everybody within current and future generations in which we learn to LIVE WITH NATURE (spiritus-anima-corpus in macrocosm, mesocosm, and microcosm).