Yesterday we started the Environmental Parliament.
It was the first consensus building debate in a parliamentary circle about the environment and it caused a lot of raised eybrows but brought together also the various views.
A humble beginning with great aspirations. The benediction of the day’s significance was all evident and the participants shared in good spirit their top most concerns about the state of the Planet and our relationship in it.
You can share your concerns too here: www.environmentalparliament.org
Fully fitting as it was Easter Sunday to start new things and debate about the interconnectedness of us all in this beautiful closed loop ecosystem.
The interconnectedness of all people firstly and of the environment is a novel idea in our times same as is the idea of a closed loop ecosystem to the government and finance officials hell bent on geometric growth.
The Environment and it’s degradation is a good teacher, much like the parable from another teacher long ago whose passion last week was celebrated by paople across the earth.
Much like him, and in memory as well as practice, the environment was degraded, mocked, and even crucified in the running debate between the great and good and the down and out people at the summit of the hill in Jerusalem or in the practice of the illogically developing economies of the world and city and the G20 treaty of London of 2009…
Yet in the island on the river in London on Good Sunday, we saw just where his insistence on the irreducible dignity of all human beings and nature got him, but we also stood at the threshold of discovering what he and nature really gave us too…
What a gift and what a way to start the humble beginnings of the environmental Parliament.
Yours,
Pano
PS: as another starter of social change said a bit of time ago:
Start by doing what’s necessary;
then do what’s possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi
