Non-Violence
The annual celebration of Earth Day in Santa Barbara is held in a large, beautiful park, with perhaps 100 booths featuring ideas that promote a better planet. Many concern themselves directly with cleantech: water savings, electrical efficiency, EVs, renewable energy and the like. While it’s great to see all this, and watch little kids get all excited about learning about ways to be kind to our home planet, it’s even cooler to check out concepts that reach far from the mainstream.
Among my favorites is “A Year Without War,” a group that presents itself as follows:
For the first time in human history, we have the technological capability to give voice to a majority of the people in our global community disgusted and exhausted by the waste of blood and treasure that is war. AYWW is now a growing global community dedicated and engaged in voicing its desire to tip history away from war, the now archaic means of conflict resolution among nations. AYWW is building its global community from grass roots to global leaders who will secure humanity’s first designated year without war among the world’s nations. By building an extensive global community, we intend we change history as it has never been changed before— create a yearlong global ceasefire.
It happens to be the 173rd birthday of Thomas Edison, who said, “Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
