Part II:

A New Paradigm for a Thriving World

A new consciousness is developing

which sees the Earth as a single organism

and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed.

We are one planet.

One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration

is the image of the Earth finite and lonely,

somehow vulnerable,

bearing the entire human species

through the oceans of space and time.

— Carl Sagan (1934–1996)