 What if I said to you You know, I've got a I've got a five-year-old child It's my fourth son. I'm getting kind of sick of this What if I stop feeding him, you know and like push him out onto the street? Why not? And and you say to me, but Charles if you did that then you would get prosecuted for child neglect and He wouldn't take care of you in your old age and what would the neighbors think? And I say, yeah, you're right. I better take care of them Can you see how that echoes a lot of environmental a lot of the environmental narrative today? Especially the climate narrative which says the reason that we've got to take better care of this pile of Resources is that if we don't for now a little more clever a little more Forsightful than bad things are gonna happen to us. Can you see that there's a problem here and that even if I agree with you? And I say, yes, you're right. I better take better care of my son. I'm not gonna take very good care of him He's not going to thrive Because really what you need what I need is to be connected with my love of this being Then I'm going to know how to take care of him Beyond what anything can be Prescribed or enforced or regulated because it's gonna be coming from a relationship I think that the planetary crisis that we call climate change is Almost you can almost say meant to bring us to that realization to bring us to that relationship of love because the Losses that we are seeing are connecting us with the reality of this living being here so To recognize What might be called legal personhood for for beings of nature for rivers for mountains for for land That is a step toward this new and ancient relationship to the rest of life and It's not just a philosophy Because sometimes it seems like okay. Yes, we should do that and thereby demonstrate our respect for indigenous people and and we get to To to be kind of politically correct, you know by doing that Along with learning Maori language and things like that, but then let's get to the nuts and bolts I mean here's the carbon budget here the planetary boundaries, you know, let's let's Formulate some policies to get those numbers down They seem to be in two separate realms what I have learned in my research that I've been doing for the book that That Matthew mentioned is that these are not two separate realms that in fact the Things that people do to protect and restore and heal land Are exactly the same things that we need to do to maintain a Healthy biosphere and a healthy climate Much more than science has realized science is beginning to appreciate how for example regenerative agriculture can increase carbon sequestration and Reduce levels of greenhouse gases that's a hint of of of this connection between the local and the global too often the climate narrative Directs us toward global solutions at the expense of The local solutions that come from our love and connection to actual pieces of land And it makes it seem like well, yeah, we could cut down this forest here because we could plant another one there We can offset things so the result is that It's Somebody else who can do the work. That's not true when we're connected to the to the to the welfare To the well-being of a particular river or a particular farm We can't say well, I'll destroy this one because I can love something somewhere else Instead we're connected to be in deep service to what's in front of our faces