For those of us concerned about Earth's future and its current crises, we are painfully aware that the challenges are far beyond the capacity of any one person, organization, or nation to solve. That’s not to say we don't all need to discern and do our part. We need the engagement and activism of us all at every level, from scientists to policy makers, from business leaders to frontline movements, and from manufacturers to consumers. 

 

However, the systemic political, economic, and cultural issues are far greater than all of the individual solutions we necessarily must pursue. So, in addition to our personal, professional, and corporate activism, we are calling upon one another to pray and send our hope-filled intentions into the current planetary milieu.

 

Whatever your spiritual or philosophical tradition, we invite you to join with others in offering expressions of gratitude, lament, care, and protection for specific creatures, locations, and ecological tipping points. May we all discern how to live, as the Iroquois' principle states, with deliberation to the seventh generation—not only of our human sisters and brothers—but equally for the future of our non-human kinfolk.