EarthLore Foundation (RF) NPC

EarthLore envisages a future in which humans are living in a respectful, just and reciprocal relationship with each other and the Earth. A world in which human communities are rooted once again in their ancestral traditions, identities and lands and are able to hold power to account. Sacred Natural Sites, are protected and recognised as No Go Areas for any industrial activity, as places similar to a church or temple for others. This recognition is enshrined in current local, national and Pan-African legislation, as eminating from a different source of law, the laws of the Earth. Human communities are able to live dignified lives, enjoy food and seed sovereignty and control their own endogenous development.

Communities cohere around rejuvenated bonds and kinship linked to their own knowledge systems and traditions that are respectful to the larger community of life – diverse species and landscapes. The regeneration of cultural and biological diversity is by now widely experienced across Southern Africa as leading to greater resilience. Diversity base livelihoods and food systems that cool the planet have reduced the impact of climate change. Mining is no longer necessary because what has been extracted is responsibily used, and waste dumps are cheaper to mine for minerals and metals. Fossil fuels have been replaced by renewable energy systems that are locally controlled and carefully designed to minimize use of materials. Industrial agriculture and plantations have been replaced because they could not survive the worst of climate change and are now transformed into diversity based small scale agro-ecologal farming systems, sustaining many communities. Regenerated landscapes hold healthy forests and flowing rivers, are a passionately protected by local communities. Humans have revived a deep sense of responsibility towards future generations as well as their past ancestry and towards other species, and experience themselves once again, as part of the larger Community of Life.