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The great turning is a revolution that is underway, the transition to a life-sustaining society. This is sprouting up in countless ways: new ways of holding the land, new ways of generating energy, new ways of producing food (some of them very old ways, we are going back to the wisdom of the ancestors, of the indigenous people often), new ways of measuring prosperity and wealth, new ways of handling differences through nonviolent communication, through restorative circles instead of the dominant punitive penal system now…
The above is from an interview with Joanna Macy on the On Being podcast.
- https://www.ecoliteracy.org/article/great-turning
- https://workthatreconnects.org/spiral/the-great-turning/the-global-context/
Macy couples this with “The Great Unraveling,” the accelerating collapse of the current ways of doing these things.
Biologist and activist Rachel Carson framed the great turning in a 1962 commencement address long before the term was coined:
The stream of time moves forward and mankind moves with it. Your generation must come to terms with the environment. You must face realities instead of taking refuge in ignorance and evasion of truth. Yours is a grave and sobering responsibility, but it is also a shining opportunity. You go out into a world where mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery — not of nature, but of itself.
Therein lies our hope and our destiny. (Rachel Carson, “Of Man and the Stream of Time”)