We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that "I don't have enough time and I have to do everything quickly." We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes.

It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves, and bought as a commodity. In the New Story food is not commodity. Food is sacred. We need to be connected with soil, with animals that we take care of.

Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.