“Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass” – Grace Lee Boggs.

Dear Climate Healers Family,

A system is an organized framework to accomplish an objective. Systems are engineered by humans, but they also routinely exist in Nature. Our human body is made up of systems – a circulatory system, an endocrine system, a digestive system, an excretory system, a nervous system, an immune system, and so on.

When a system fails within an interlocking set of systems, it can bring down all of them, resulting in catastrophic system failure, or in biological terms – death. For instance, if a circulatory system fails within a human body, say through a cardiac arrest, that can lead to cascading failures simply from the lack of oxygen input to other systems. Once enough actors or cells in the system cease to function, these interlocking systems can never be revived and the person is pronounced as dead.

We have studied millions of human beings and we know where the pressure points are for catastrophic system failure causing human death. In contrast, planet Earth is the only living planet in our galactic neighborhood and therefore, we have exactly one planet that we have studied so far. We don’t yet know where the pressure points are for cascading system failures causing planetary death.

A cohort of one doesn’t tell us much about how living planets die. Nevertheless, as the Bhagavad Gita 2-27 says, “Death is certain for that which is born.”

Our living planet has multiple interlocking life-support systems – the biodiversity preservation system, the chemical pollution processing system, the nitrogen fixing system, the climate stabilization system, the freshwater production system, and so on. I mention these systems since our human engineered systems, especially, the food system, the energy system, and the economic system, have destabilized these planetary life-support systems and dragged them into unsafe zones.

The biodiversity preservation system and the chemical pollution processing system have become so destabilized that they are rated as high risk of failing entirely. The accelerating loss of wildlife and the increasing chemical pollution of global food supplies are visible indicators of these failures.

Scientists say the recent catastrophic coral die-offs mark the breach of the Earth’s first climate tipping point. There are many more climate tipping points waiting to be triggered in the pipeline, if we continue with our business as usual activities.

There is good news in the midst of all this bleakness: there is something that we can collectively do that has the potential to mitigate all of the human-caused breaches in the life-support systems of the planet.

Go Vegan. Live Ahimsa. Create Planet B.

I don’t know if the whole world going Vegan and creating Planet B is sufficient to stabilize all of the cascading failures in the life-support systems of our planet that we are witnessing today. However, given the tremendous complexity of the Earth’s systems, I do know that until we all go Vegan and create Planet B and then monitor these systems to find out, we won’t know if the whole world going Vegan and creating Planet B is sufficient.

Join us at V-COP23

Please join us in Toronto for the Vegan Convergence Of the Peoples #23 (V-COP23) on Nov 1-2 to help shape and implement our system design plan for Planet B. The theme for V-COP23 is offered by our co-host, Plant Based Treaty: Redirect, Relinquish, Restore::

Redirect our focus from fixing Planet A to building Planet B.
Relinquish the excess resources we have taken from the planet.
Restore the life-support systems of the planet with the relinquished resources.

Please be there and help make history.

With much love,