One Earth, One Humanity vs. the 1% Quotes

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“Being a planetary citizen does not need space travel. It means being conscious that we are part of the universe and of the earth. The most fundamental law is to recognise that we share the planet with other beings, and that we have a duty to care for our common home.”
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
“Staying home is an ecological imperative, an ethical imperative. It is also a joyful option. It is the practice of oikonomia as the art of living. It is earth democracy in action, cultivating and expanding the freedoms of all beings.”
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
“Simplicity and nonviolence are the basis of an economy of wellbeing, and such an economy must be localised.”
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
“Seeding the future when possible extinction stares us in the face; seeding freedom when the freedoms of all beings are being closed for the limitless freedom of the 1% to exploit the earth and people, to manipulate life and our minds: this calls for a quantum leap in our imaginations, our intelligences, our capacity for compassion and love, as well as our courage for creative nonviolent resistance and non-cooperation with a system that is driving us to extinction.”
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
“The business of grabbing and money-making, through a violent extractive economy that the 1% have built, is burdening the earth and humanity with unbearable and non-sustainable costs, and has brought us to the brink of extinction. We do not have to escape from the earth; we have to escape from the illusions that enslave our minds and make extinction look inevitable.”
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
“We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labour that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.2”
― Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
“Society cannot tolerate a biology whose metaphysical base is outmoded and misleading: society desperately needs to live in harmony with the rest of the living world, not with a biology that is a distorted and [an] incomplete reflection of that world. Because it has been taught to accept the above hierarchy of the sciences, society today perceives biology as here to solve its problems, to change the living world…society will come to see that biology is here to understand the world, not primarily to change it. Biology’s primary job is to teach us. In that realization lies our hope of learning to live in harmony with our planet.”
― Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
“Owning our seeds through seed freedom, our own food through food freedom, our own minds and intelligence through intellectual freedom, our own economies through freedom to produce and consume ecologically and locally, is the ‘barbarianism’ that the 1% would like to extinguish.”
― Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
“Then, as now, the issue is control. Then, as now, the prejudice of the super rich, and their fear of women, the poor, the migrant, and the coloured, shapes what they call ‘science’, as the ultimate objective truth, when in reality it is the articulation of subjective prejudice, of fear of the other, of the uncontrollable urge to dominate.”
― Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
“The genetic engineering paradigm invades life itself, redefining people and living organisms as machines to be manipulated and engineered. Defining a construct, the ‘gene’, as the building block of life, is scientifically flawed. As Richard Lewontin has said in The Doctrine of DNA, DNA is a dead molecule, among the most non-reactive, chemically inert molecules in the world. It has no power to reproduce itself. Rather, it is produced out of elementary materials by a complex cellular machinery of proteins. While it is often said that DNA produces proteins, in fact proteins (enzymes) produce DNA. When we refer to genes as self-replicating, we endow them with a mysterious autonomous power that seems to place them above the more ordinary materials of the body. Yet,”
― Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
“On a planet with 300 million species and 7 billion humans, one man determining the future is a dangerous idea. It is dangerous for the Earth, because the anthropocentric, reductionist, and mechanistic assumptions by which Gates is guided are at the root of the ecological crisis that has brought us to the brink.”
― One Earth, One Humanity vs. the 1%
― One Earth, One Humanity vs. the 1%