---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Hazel Henderson <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:24 PM Subject: “PANDEMICS: LESSONS LOOKING BACK FROM 2050” BY FRITJOF CAPRA AND HAZEL HENDERSON To: Larae Long <[email protected]> Dear Esteemed global Advisory Board and Judges Panel, This article below now live, I just wrote with my longtime friend and co-author Fritjof Capra is one we hope you’ll find encouraging! Please feel free to circulate and we welcome you comments. Love to All, Hazel *“PANDEMICS: LESSONS LOOKING BACK FROM 2050” BY FRITJOF CAPRA AND HAZEL HENDERSON* “Ethical Markets is happy to bring you this latest co-authored article “Pandemics: Lessons Looking Back From 2050″ by Hazel Henderson and our esteemed Advisory Board member Fritjof Capra. We hope for your feedback and feel free to circulate this to your networks. ~Hazel Henderson, Editor” *PANDEMICS — LESSONS LOOKING BACK FROM 2050* Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson © 2020 *Imagine, it is the year 2050 and we are looking back to the origin and evolution of the coronavirus pandemic over the last three decades. Extrapolating from recent events, we offer the following scenario for such a view from the future.* As we move into the second half of our twenty-first century, we can finally make sense of the origin and impact of the coronavirus that struck the world in 2020 from an evolutionary systemic perspective. Today, in 2050, looking back on the past 40 turbulent years on our home planet, it seems obvious that the Earth had taken charge of teaching our human family. Our planet taught us the primacy of understanding of our situation in terms of whole systems, identified by some far-sighted thinkers as far back as the mid-nineteenth century. This widening human awareness revealed how the planet actually functions, its living biosphere systemically powered by the daily flow of photons from our mother star, the Sun. Eventually, this expanded awareness overcame the cognitive limitations and incorrect assumptions and ideologies that had created the crises of the twentieth century. False theories of human development and progress , measured myopically by prices and money-based metrics, such as GDP, culminated in rising social and environmental losses: pollution of air, water and land; destruction of biological diversity; loss of ecosystem services, all exacerbated by global heating, rising sea levels, and massive climate disruptions. These myopic policies had also driven social breakdowns, inequality, poverty, mental and physical illness, addiction, loss of trust in institutions — including media, academia, and science itself — as well as loss of community solidarity. They had also led to the pandemics of the 21 st century, SARS, MERS, AIDS, influenza, and the various coronaviruses that emerged back in 2020. [READ MORE] <https://www.ethicalmarkets.com/pandemics-lessons-looking-back-from-2050/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ethicalmarkets+%28EthicalMarkets.com%29> * “PANDEMICS — LESSONS LOOKING BACK FROM 2050” <https://www.ethicalmarkets.com/pandemics-lessons-looking-back-from-2050/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ethicalmarkets+%28EthicalMarkets.com%29>* -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/