I wrote this poem a year ago in a fit of pique of despair at the elected leaders soundbites...not being able to see the bigger picture that we belong to a whole and interconnectedness and through the loss of that picture, is what is bringing us to an existential threat...
I have shared my poem along with the donut economy graphic on a couple of platforms I belonged to such as Rebel wisdom subscriber digital campfire
https://rebelwisdom.co.uk and currently Charles Eisenstein's community "New and Ancient Story"
https://www.naascommunity.org to bring awareness of the Doughnut model and ignite conversation.
Anthropocene- A song of Caveat and Hope
As the calving of the ice
plummets into the rising seas
There lies dormant in the permafrost
Perhaps something more deadly than Covid19
Our infractions and exploitations of the natural habitat
has caused the loss of wildlife
We may have unintentionally
Unleashed more zoonotic dis-ease
Upsetting Mother nature’s auto- immunity
Which is encoded within
Gaia the goddess of the earth
Nature’s defence mechanism to protect
Her biosphere of which she has sovereignty
As our leaders blind again to their own hubris;
Call it out as an act of war
In case we shall not learn from this
Are we declaring an un-triumphable
Repetition- compulsion nightmare beyond the tipping point?
No, not unless we collectively remember
That we too are mother nature’s lost children, the tribe of Homo sapiens
Long ago she has taught us we can thrive through co-existence
Alongside as part of nature we learned to live courageously,
And we can still evolve much further
To raise all from levels of mere subsistence
With love, kindness and compassion
To rebuild again economically
An environmental and socially just society
That has got to be our main mission
This revolution has quietly begun
A visionary plan devised by Kate Raworth a don
From the university of Oxford, an economist is she
The framework is contained within a Doughnut you shall see
The environmental ceiling boundaried by the outer circle
To keep track of Earth’s life supporting systems
So as to not to deplete the precious resources
whom we share in all our fate
And enshrined within the doughnut’s inner circle
The social foundation that is designed
To keep accountability to not shortfall
The social equity for all its’ denizens
And Amsterdam is the first city to adopt this new economy
For her post-Covid19 recovery
This is a new map to sustainable living, a rich alternative
To the upward unsustainable growth trajectory
That measures the GDP as if earth were a factory
To create a new paradigm for our planet
Dare we dream a new myth for the age of the Anthropocene?
Now that the might of a novel Corona V.
Has finally stopped us in our tracks
Can we stop the calving of the ice
Plummeting into the rising sea?
As there lies dormant in the permafrost
Perhaps something far deadlier than Covid19
Kei Iino
May 17th 2020
Désiré Leijs
Abcoude, Utrecht, The Netherlands
I'm very interested in helping communities, organizations and companies alligning their work more according to Doughnut principles