Our Natural Environment and its Impact on Freedom, Resources and War

“The environment in the New Message is called the most important thing in the world. For if it changes or if it declines, it changes everything.”

“The New Message gives us a very great teaching about the changing world itself, the greater environment in which we all live, the world we depend upon every day in countless ways. It’s giving us the picture of this change, what it means, why it’s happening and where it’s taking us, or could take us, and the choices that we have yet to make and could make to make a real difference in the outcome. So the world begins to teach us some key things that I’d like to talk with you about today.”

“When you think of freedom—your freedom, your personal freedom—think about the environment that supports you and everyone. Political scenarios change, political leaders change, political drama changes, and all that can be very consuming, but it’s really the environment that matters.”

“The New Message describes war as always a competition for resources, despite whatever political or religious aspirations or issues are at stake. It’s always an attempt to gain more resources or to compete for resources or to gain someone else’s resources.”

“If this environment becomes too destabilized, we’re now facing a specter of war the likes of which we have rarely seen in modern times at all, what the New Message calls “the wars of desperation,” where nations are so depleted they have to assault, attack and displace the populations of nations around them that have the resources that they need. That’s no longer trade, commerce and agreement. It now becomes a desperate attempt at competition. We certainly want to avoid that.”

“So humanity has changed the environment, the climate, which changes the environment. And it’s changing the environment even at this moment in ways that we will not be able to control. We may have already passed the threshold of stabilizing the climate. I think we have. So here we are living in this momentous time of change at the most fundamental level, and yet how many people see this and feel this and know this?”

~ Marshall Vian Summers