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:

Recognizing that the Universe is primarily a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.
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.
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.
Humans will recognize the rights of other members of the Earth Community to habitat and their share of the Earth's benefits.
Celebration of the grandeur and loveliness and joy of existence on the planet Earth will be essential to human society.