EARTH’S HOPE:
envisioning a future with functional ecosystems

to rebalance the carbon cycle
to ensure biodiversity survives for future generations
to halt and reverse desertification
to ensure food security for all
to eradicate poverty

EARTH’S HOPE:
envisioning a future with functional ecosystems

Human beings will determine what the Earth will be like in the future. It can either be “hot, dry and crowded” or it can be moist, fertile and nurturing. What it will be depends on whether humanity can collectively learn what it has failed to learn for millennia, namely, how to ensure functional ecosystems.

Climate change is showing us that we have altered natural systems.

We can accurately and logically understand what has happened.

We have and are seriously reducing the biological diversity of all living things. We have reduced the amounts of biomass being generated in many parts of the world. By reducing photosynthesis we have lowered natural carbon uptake and storage and reduced the accumulation of organic matter in the soil, lowering soil fertility and productivity. Reduced organic matter in the soil has altered the infiltration and retention of rainfall.
Lowered soil moisture has led to degradation of microclimates and weather patterns. This alters local and therefore global temperature averages.

To fix this, a physical response, as a species, on a planetary scale is required.

As long as we ignore what this means then we are committed to the outcomes from long-term trends.

As soon as we understand what this means we can reverse these trends.

We can reverse the trends by physically ensuring the infiltration and retention of rainfall, by consciously and efficiently increasing organic matter in the soil, by restoring vegetation cover wherever it has been lost, by designating ecological land with natural succession of endemic and indigenous plants, to ensure that biodiversity survives for future generations.

John D. Liu Mission Statement