The Verdant Age is a potential future time when human civilization and the Living Planet thrive in synergy. Let's break that down because it is important.
- Thrive suggests not just surviving but prospering.
- In synergy means that each party is better off with the other.
The concept of the Verdant Age is not just wishful thinking but is consistent with scientific frameworks such as Gaia 2.0, Class-5 (Agency Dominated) Planets, Earth System Stewardship, the Ecozoic Era, and Ecological Civilization.
How long could the Verdant Age last?
A year, as we all know, is the time it takes for our planet Earth to orbit the Sun. What is less well known is that our solar system is entrained within the Milky Way Galaxy that rotates around its galactic core every 230 million years or so. This is referred to as a Galactic Year.
Vita Sapien Philosophy holds that the Verdant Age could last a Galactic Year. This means that humans could be living happily on Earth more than 200 million years from now. Advancing the Verdant Age so that human civilization might survive a Galactic Year is the raison d'être of Vita Sapien Philosophy.
Changing trajectory
A nice aspiration, indeed, but if you chart the current trajectory of human civilization, you will see that we are heading rapidly towards the abyss. If we are to enter the Verdant Age, we need to change trajectory.
To reach the Verdant Age, it is necessary to swiftly change the trajectory of human civilization and resolve the Anthropocene Crisis with enough of the Living Planet intact, and a high-enough proportion of people with Ecosystem Spirituality.
By necessity, a sustainable civilization will have sustainable levels of population and consumption — and if we have learned anything from the Anthropocene, it is where the limits lie.
To achieve this in the narrow window of time remaining, the widespread uptake of a sustainable life philosophy grounded in nature spirituality is required.
