Duane Elgin - Choosing Earth: Humanitys Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilization

CHOOSING EARTH Humanitys Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilization Duane Elgin Endorsements for Choosing EarthChoosing Earth is the most important book of our time. To read and dwell within it is an awakening experience that can activate both an ecological and spiritual revolution. Jean Houston, PhD, Chancellor of Meridian University, philosopher, author of The Possible Human, Jump Time, Life Force and many more. A truly essential book for our time from one of the greatest and deepest thinkers of our time. Whoever is concerned to create a better future for the human family must read this book and take to heart the wisdom it offers. Ervin Laszlo is an evolutionary systems philosopher, author of more than one hundred books including The Intelligence of the Cosmos and Global Shift. This may be the perfect moment for so prophetic a voice to be heard.

Sobered by the pandemic, we are recognizing both the fragility of our political arrangements and the power of our mutual belonging. As Elgin knows, we already possess the essential ingredient our capacity to choose. Joanna Macy, author of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in WithoutGoing Crazy, is root teacher of The Work That Reconnects and celebrated in A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time. Duane Elgin has thought hard and meditated long about what it will take for humanity to evolve past our looming ecological bottleneck toward a future worth building. There is wisdom in these pages to light the way through our dark and troubled times. Richard Heinberg is one of the worlds foremost advocates for a shift away from reliance on fossil fuels; author of Our Renewable Future, PeakEverything, and The End of Growth.

Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute. As a lifelong advocate and scholar of justice and inclusive peace, as a woman from the global south, I have never before read a book on the global climate crisis by a 'white American male' that has so deeply touched and enriched me with its unprecedented combination of comprehensive scientific analysis, unswerving commitment to justice and reconciliation, reverence for indigenous and marginalized people, honoring of women and the feminine. Dr. Rama Mani is Councillor, World Future Council and Convenor, Enacting Global Transformation Initiative, University of Oxford. At a time when billionaires are preparing to escape from the Earth through Space X, assuming that extinction is inevitable, Duane Elgin shows that we can Choose Earth. He shows that escape or extinc tion, collapse or surveillance systems, are not the only options.

We as humans have a third choice to respect ecological boundaries and limits and regenerate the Earth, and the well-being of all. Dr. Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, and author of more than twenty books including Earth Democracy and Stolen Harvest. In his magnum opus, Choosing Earth, Duane Elgin leads us on the ultimate journey of humanitys collective free will as a species. Humanity, both present and future, and all life on Earth owes a debt of gratitude to Duane for awakening us to the urgency and regenerative possibilities of choosing Earth. John Fullerton is a former managing director of JP Morgan; founder of Capital Institute, a key architect of regenerative economics that support the transition to a just and sustainable future through the transformation of finance.

Duane Elgin taps into the most profound, evolutionary pulse of our time. Choosing Earth is timely, relevant, clear, potent and absolutely brilliant. Lynne Twist is the author of The Soul of Money and Co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance, and a global visionary committed to alleviating poverty and hunger, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. Having taken an oath to follow the Earth-honoring ways of Peruvian shamanic wisdom, I consider what Duane Elgin has writ ten is of equal consciousness raising impact as that accomplished by Rachel Carson when writing Silent Spring in 1962. ChoosingEarth may become vital reading among all dedicated to the Great Work of safeguarding the sanctity and healthful flourishing of life upon beloved Gaia-Pachamama. don Oscar Miro-Quesada is a traditional medicine carrier and healer from Peru, Fellow in Ethnopsychology with the Organization of American States, Invited Observer to the United Nations Forum on Indigenous Issues, author of Healing Light.

Duane Elgins masterpiece is the most powerful and comprehensive wake-up call on Earth. Choosing Earth invites us to take a hard look at our current condition and possible futures, and sources us towards a possible pathway of compassionate, conscious, and engaged Earth citizenship, rooted in elegant simplicity and fuelled by aliveness. This passionate, eloquent and wise book is the critical curriculum humanity needs now to navigate its transition to a mature planetary civilization on Earth. Prof. Alexander Schieffer (Germany/France) is Co-Author of IntegralDevelopment, Co-Founder, Home for Humanity; and Co-Founder, TRANS4M Center for Integral Transformation. Choosing Earth is a profoundly important book: the crowning achievement of a life of contribution by a man of enormous intelli gence, extensive knowledge, penetrating insight, and far-reaching vision, who has dedicated his life to understanding the perils our civilization faces, and how we might survive them and even grow from them.

Roger Walsh, MD, PhD, teaches at the University of California Medical School and is a professor of psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology and religious studies. His books include Paths Beyond Ego and Essential Spirituality. Duane Elgins antennae are tuned to the deep future. ChoosingEarth shifts our consciousness to the great awakening now required to save our planet and protect future generations. Louie Schwartzberg is an internationally acclaimed cinematographer and director whose visual artistry celebrates life. His most recent film is Fantastic Fungi, described as a model for planetary survival by the New York Times.

Duane Elgin's panoramic wisdom in Choosing Earth is vital in this time when complex, interconnected crises demand coherent, interconnected solutions. A pioneering and important book! Kurt Johnson, PhD, is an evolutionary biologist, interspiritual leader, professor of comparative religion at New York's Interfaith Seminary, and author of the award-winning The Coming Interspiritual Age, Nabokov'sBlues and Fine Lines. "Duane Elgin is one of the foremost, visionary thought leaders of our time. His genius lies in his ability to combine emotional, intel lectual and spiritual intelligences with his heart-based wisdom and knowing. Choosing Earth offers us a pragmatic guide to re-birth our planetary civilization that is otherwise destined to disappear. Adam C. Hall is a successful entrepreneur, founder of the EarthKeeper Alliance, and CEO of The Genius Studio which empowers individuals and organizations to unleash their genius to discover and align their purpose.

CHOOSING EARTH Humanitys Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilization Duane Elgin Published by Duane Elgin www.DuaneElgin.com Copyright 2020 Duane Elgin This book is part of the Choosing Earth Project. For more information, go to www.ChoosingEarth.org All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or modified in any form, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law. For permission requests, write to Duane Elgin at www.ChoosingEarth.org. Book design and infographics: Birgit Wick, www.WickDesignStudio.com Graph page 35: Emily Calvanese Font: Georgia and Avenir First Edition 1. SCI092000 2.