292: The environment is the outward manifestation of our beliefs
Here are the notes I read from for this episode:
- Outward manifestation
- Been saying lately
- When you see pollution, dingy skies, sea levels rising
- Any one person listening may not have
- But if American, likely more than nearly anyone
- Less technological, more social and personal
- Results from our behavior, from our choices
- From our beliefs, stories, images, desires
- Opposite would be stewardship, caring about others first, service
- Why leadership matters
- Crazy part is harmony with nature simplifies life
- Creates joy, community, connection
- Not about guilt or shame, just perspective
- In all fairness, some past systems
- I’m just like everyone else. When I think of something fun and polluting, I think, maybe it won’t matter, the plane was flying anyway
- That’s the cause of global warming and our climate problems
- Maybe I’ll get away with it. Maybe my contribution won’t count
- You can blame it on lots of things, but that attitude and ones like it are at the root of that behavior
- The outward manifestation of that thought is pollution