Ecozoic

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The Ecozoic Era refers to the promise of a coming era when humans live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the larger community of life systems. The Ecozoic Era could also be called the “ecological age.”

The Ecozoic is the emerging time period in The Great Story, recognizing that the Cenozoic Era is ending.

There are generally five principles set forth for the Ecozoic:

1. Recognizing that the Universe is primarily a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.
2. Beyond suicide, homicide, and genocide, there are even more violent crimes -- biocide and geocide: biocide, the wanton killing of the life systems of the planet; geocide, the killing of the planet itself in its major forms of expression.
3. The human is derivative, the Earth is primary. The primary concern of every profession, institute, and activity of the human betrays itself unless it makes this larger earth community its primary referent.
4. Humans will recognize the rights of other members of the Earth Community to habitat and their share of the Earth's benefits.
5. Celebration of the grandeur and loveliness and joy of existence on the planet Earth will be essential to human society.

[edit] See also

• Thomas Berry

[edit] External links

• Center for Ecozoic Studies
• The Light Party - description of the Ecozoic Era by Thomas Berry
• Welcome to the Ecozoic Era by Amy Hassinger
• A Call for the Ecozoic - EarthLight Magazine web site

[edit] References

• on "Ecozoic" - Double-Tongued Dictionary
• Ecozoic, presented by Kel Richards - ABC Newsradio (incl. 'audio file)
• Ecozoic Evolution? (draft for Whidbey Island Conference) by Michael C. Kalton (2002), University of Washington, Tacoma
• Radical living in the Ecozoic Era (31 Aug 2005) - CathNews (aka 'catholic news'), A Service of Church Resources, Australia