What do these people have in common with the Peace Fire?
Ryan Phelan is the CEO of the All Species Foundation.
Stewart Brand is president of The Long Now Foundation.
Both understand the importance of fostering peace in the environment and grasping and holding within our present consciousness hugh time spans covering centuries if humans are to survive into the next millennium.
The intention of the Peace Fire is for it to stay lighted for six hundred years. Compared to Stewart Brand's 10,000 year Millennium Clock, this is small cookies. However, in today's fast paced planning schemes, thinking ahead more than ten years is considered brave. Yet, it is imperative that our governments and corporations start considering how their actions will affect, at least, the seventh generation.
One of the dedications of the Peace Fire is to create a peace between humanity and the rest of the living world. Whether the ten million to thirty million species that Ryan Phelan is attempting to catalogue remain alive or become extlinct will play a big factor in how humans will fare.
So, toss another log on the fire and let's all pray for Peace. Peace in the forests, peace in Iraq, peace in the oceans, peace in the skies, peace everywhere.
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