Reading List – People’s Lobby

Connecting the Dots: A Roadmap for Critical Systemic Change

How We Got Here / What We Can Do / How We Can Do it

Connecting the Dots weaves together an existing body of knowledge with original research and addresses these questions in three distinct but interrelated parts. The first part, The Disconnect, examines the historical background of the root causes--dominator hierarchies and disconnection--and explains how these are manifested today in the dominant paradigm of Industrialism with its symptoms of global warming, resource depletion, biospheric toxicity, and rising inequity. This section also clarifies why urgent action is necessary. The second part, The Reversal, explains what we can do differently and why we can reasonably expect it to be successful. Part three addresses the “how” question by providing the core toolset, strategies, and actions that can be used for our transition to a sustainable future. Together, these three parts

Best Case Path: Choosing Earth

In this revised edition of Choosing Earth (February 2022), Duane Elgin describes how the world is moving into a time of profound transition that opens a pathway to three, very different futures—extinction, authoritarianism, and transformation. While acknowledging the very real possibility of either extinction and authoritarianism, Choosing Earth looks a half-century into the future to explore humanity’s journey of collective initiation and transformation as we move through decades of breakdown and collapse to a more mature, planetary community.

For more information see Choosing Earth Project

Although slashing fossil-fuel burning by at least 50% in the next few years is a prerequisite to surviving the last 200+ years of fossil-fuel burning, it will not be enough.

A major producer of GHG is the soil destroying, fossil-fueled and chemical infused Big Ag/Big Meat industry. It's heavily subsidized by governments but it MUST be replaced by converting billions of acres into Regenerative Agricultural practices, preferably REAL Organic.

For more in depth information about this OTHER most important change in human activity, check out these excellent books:

A great discussion about what we must do to reform agriculture in order to survive as a species, to deal with 50% of the production of GHG and pollution of our only Home Planet can be found in Grassroots Rising by Ronnie Cummins

Sequel: The Regenerative Agriculture Solution
A Revolutionary Approach to Building Soil, Creating Climate Resilience, and Supporting Human and Planetary Health Ronnie Cummins André Leu Foreword by Vandana Shiva Farming & Homesteading