We are artists. We are dreamers. We are healers. We feel the grief and heartbreak of our current ecological crisis, yet we believe the future is unwritten.¹ We believe a better world is possible. Research tells us we have all the money and technology we need to create a regenerative world where humans and nature collectively thrive,² but scientists and politicians can't inspire the change we need. It's going to take artists. We are being called forth in this moment. We are agents of change. Creativity is our fuel. We will deliver new ideas and visions for the future.³ We have the conviction. We can save the planet. We believe that hope is a choice and a conscious action. We know every moment leading up to 2030 is critical.⁴ We believe we must act. Now. We believe in unleashing our full human potential through the power of manifestation. Science has validated the power and connection of our thoughts, words, and actions. It's quantum physics.⁵ Practicing radical imagination ⁶ and painting a new reality are key. We believe in collective action. Churning death into life. Like choreographing hugs. We are galactic. We are rivers, lakes, and oceans. We are soils.
¹ Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac illustrate other possibilities in The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis (New York: Vintage Books, 2021) ² Krista Tippett's conversation with Christiana Figueres for the On Being podcast, titled Ecological Hope and Spiritual Evolution, which aired on November 9, 2023, inspired so much of this writing: https://onbeing.org/
³ This is what artists do.
⁴ The Paris Agreement is an international treaty on climate change, adopted by 196 countries at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, on December 12, 2015. The legally binding Agreement entered into force on November 4, 2016, emphasizing 2030 as our point of no return. ⁵ Dr. Joe Dispenza integrates scientific information with ancient spiritual wisdom to show how we all can live magical existences in Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon (Carlsbad, California: Hay House, Inc., 2017)
⁶ Radical Imagination is a term coined by adrienne maree brown that serves as a framework and practice for transformation.
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