…a society based on materialism and the. conquest of nature works to overcome these cycles. If some is good, more must be better, and an absolute glut seems best. At the same time, those who have little get even less.

The wise leader follows the natural order of events and does not take the consumer society for a model…

Understanding the connection between biodiversity and human health
The Covid-19 pandemic has heightened people’s awareness of our connection to nature. Humanity’s heavy footprint has destroyed and fragmented important ecosystems and landscapes, reducing the biodiversity those landscapes support and altering the delicate natural buffer that separates wildlife, pathogens and people. When habitat and biodiversity disappear and the buffer between humans and the natural world weakens, pathogens “spill over” to human populations, causing pandemics, such as Covid-19.

I highly recommend reading Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity" by Mark Kramer and John Kania, guests on our podcast this week. You can listen to this special podcast episode #11, where I had the rare opportunity to speak with both of the founders of the Collective Impact Framework, Mark Kramer and John Kania, as well as the Executive Director of the Collective Impact Forum, Jennifer Juster.