The object is twofold: to unite the non governmental organisations and activists and local and global networks around an agreed agenda, based on an agreed planetary ethic of respect for all life and human dignity and to urge governments worldwide join us in using the coming decade to bring in the new thinking and actions that will restore the Earth and secure a sustainable future for present and coming generations.

The Earth Emergency is brought into focus in the latest WWF Living Planet Report which states that in the past 30 years we have destroyed over one third of Earth’s natural resources. It concludes that if we continue business as usual we will need two extra planets by 2050.

As the great American theologian, Thomas Berry, says: ‘We are at a defining moment in history, a time in which the earth itself calls out to us to embark upon a re-sacralization of nature, a new ecological beginning’. The World Summit on Sustainable Development, gives us all the chance to commit to what he calls The Great Work of the 21st Century.

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