Brief explanation of the title of our little book on applied ecology, or Games We Play: More Than 200,000 Years of Living Truthfully & of Searching for Truth:
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“For more than 200,000 years we lived Truths of living locally and cautiously in ecologically knowledgeable and equitable ways … within limits! Then a few thousand years ago we opened Pandora’s Box of agriculture, War, and industrialization, as well as capitalism, materialism, and consumerism. This resulted in: overshoot (especially including overshoot of embodied human appropriated net primary productivity) and destruction of a homeostatic natural resource base, disparity, rampant artificialization and concurrent and ubiquitous ecological ignorance and ecological insanity.
True spiritual leaders such as Vandana Shiva, Winona LaDuke, Helmut Haberl, Tanya & Wendell Berry, E.O. Wilson, the Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, and Rosalynn & Jimmy Carter, in addition to many other wise elders, are trying to lead us in a struggle to once again realize truths of the cardinal virtues, ecological literacy, empathy, compassion, respect, and reciprocity, equality and equity, i.e., to live sustainably and in concert with Nature.”