How to Think like an Ecosystem to achieve sustainable success

Earth Body Mind Spirit with Mike D Stokes

Hello everyone, Mike Stokes wildlife education. Today I'd like to talk about how to think, like, an ecosystem where to begin. So for years, or for most of human history. Humans have been subject to the ecosystem for their survival. And, obviously, that seems like it's not the case in our modern era, it seems like we can technologically design our way out of the ecosystem that supports us. While I believe that that is in theory possible. I think that what is vastly underestimated and most ecologists and scientists would agree, is that the ecological functions, served by a functioning, and not just functioning but thriving ecosystem are incredibly difficult to replicate and take an incredibly long time period. So, what does it take to think like so. So I guess the first and important point is to. If you're not already convinced that the ecosystem is important. I am not going to try to convince you, and if you're not already convinced that we need to preserve biodiversity, and we need to stabilize and slow down the human induced changes to our ecosystems and our environment. Well this isn't a talk for you, you need to be listening to whatever you need to listen to. But if you do believe that if you do believe that the ecosystem that we see around the planet are critical to preserve, not only for our basic air temperature zones crop growing. But for medicines and other services which I'm not going to go into too much detail here. This is just a surface level conversation about this stuff. If you believe that to be important. Then you need to. I was thinking about a better way of recording so sorry about the brain stop there. If you're believe that you need to start being like an ecosystem. So that is the big crux of the matter, because the beauty of being human is that we can separate ourselves from everything in our mind and have a creative visualization of what we are and what society can be. According to our own creative ideas. Everyone's creative, we just use our creativity in different ways and sometimes we let our creativity be bound by cultural norms. But the act of being human is the act of creating your own identity, and your cultural meaning, and what it is to be alive on earth you can't really be alive in a human form without creating a belief structure, which is adding meaning to everything around you. Even if you're saying it's all meaningless. and there's no God and there's no importance to anything and we're all just going to die and it's the black emptiness of space, even if you believe that you've added some meaning to that some significance to that some idea that that should motivate you in particular things that you do and don't do. So what I'm suggesting is that truly the only way that we are going to save our home, which. All you got to do is open your eyes and start looking at the numbers. The, the diversity decline the wildlife decline, the pollution increase, although there are regional stories where pollution increases going down the, the massive decline is still happening, and the, the cultural conversation has started to shift around the climate. But what I'm suggesting is that that's insufficient. We can't just shift our conversation around the climate or we're just going to create a future problem that we can't foresee instead what we need to do is become the change, like Gandhi says, so what how do you become the change, you become start to adopt and start to surround yourself and start to write and teach and research about the interdependence of all living things, so an ecosystem is interdependent by nature that's what it is, is dependent upon its bio region. Its climactic base and then its relationships between species, and individuals. So you are the same as that, you know, there's a great. There's a lot of examples of ecosystems of social nature that have created great