 On some level, many of us recognize that it's impossible to have a healthy planetary climate when the political climate is out of balance or the social climate or the psychic climate, that human relationships are connected to the state of the planet. And this might be hard to justify scientifically, but like on some level we understand that a society that dehumanizes some of its members, based on race, for example, is also going to be a society that desacralizes other beings. A society that exploits the vulnerable economically is also going to be a society that exploits and destroys the most vulnerable places on earth. A society at war with itself, where people are fighting each other and hating each other, is also going to be a society that is at war with the environment in opposition. A society that holds animals in cages in zoos, locks them up and locks up people is also going to be a society that confines nature and doesn't allow it to flourish. So there's a connection here, which means that changing these social conditions is part of the same mindset, part of the same movement in changing our ecological relationships. It's not always obvious how social or political or economic, or not to mention relational, community level or individual healing is part of planetary healing. But think of it this way. How much energy do we have left over if we're spending 99% of it fighting each other? How can we co-hair as a species, as a civilization, to turn our attention, turn our labor, turn our creativity toward the healing of this earth? When we're exhausting it all, fighting each other, because these are not trivial changes. The changes that we need to make to come into balance and harmony and service to a living earth, these changes will only come with a strong will, a strong collective will, a strong collective intention to shift our institutions in alignment with ecological values, in alignment with the love of life. This does not happen with a conflicted divided society. We have to be in coherence. So when you ask what's keeping us out of coherence, what's keeping us at war with each other, what's keeping us in a state of perpetual artificial scarcity, when there is actually so much abundance and making so many people unable to devote themselves to anything but survival, what fixates people on this war of each against all? Then we get to economics, we get to politics, we get to trauma, we get to everything about the way that we're living today. And that's why healing on every level, action on every level is needed. And we cannot ignore social issues. We cannot ignore personal issues, even community issues, political issues. All of these are part of the same movement toward wholeness.