An important point I would like to draw attention to is the greatest challenge of our days, that of ecosystem loss; a dying ecosystem means no future for any of its members. The earth consists of millions of organisms like the human body consists of millions of cells. It is healthy interrelationships that allow the body to live and the earth to unfold the living experience.
Regarding plants, the current continuous loss of ecosystems means that we lose fast plant species and therefore, also medicinal sources. Only a small proportion of plants have been examined for their pharmacological effects and we are constantly loosing crucial traditional ethnopharmacological knowledge. It seems really crucial that we increase plant-based clinical and research studies and we preserve ecosystems and plant species.
But actually, it is not just about plants, animals and insects. It is also about the beauty of cultural creation and social prosperity. All of humanity’s cultural expression in food, music, dance and the arts, in thought, social relationships and everything one can imagine as an expression of life, has existed as part of life evolution in specific ecosystems. The loss of ecosystem biodiversity leads also to the continuous loss of cultural biodiversity, to the loss of richness in thought and expression. But life is all about richness and diversity.
Life is not just about survival. It is about freedom, creation, expression of feelings and thoughts hope, love and sharing. To live means to be part of the great dance of biodiversity on our beautiful planet.
By the way, the photos in this section are not representative of ecosystem damage, as it was too heart-breaking to include such in Aurama’s website. It should be enough for anyone to just have a look around. But being part of our planetary system, we should also look a bit further away, assess the situation bravely, and realize the extent to which modern civilization and the prevalent way of thinking threatens life on Earth. And shedding the cover of arrogance, ignorance, fear, and sense of weakness, we should recognize the need to take action for the healing of our planet, our bodies, our minds and our souls.
