Transcript for Joanna Macy – We Can't Do it All 

global oneness project We Can't Do It All If you think that you're supposed to start a rape crisis center and save the whales and work to get mercury out of the rivers and mother's milk Joanna Macy - San Francisco, California - Eco-philosopher and Activist and etc., etc., that is a recipe for getting nothing done. You'll be like the donkey starving between two bales of hay. This is why I love the sense of the web of life that underlies the mindset of The Great Turning, where everything in our universe is interdependent as the leaves and branches of a tree or as the root systems or as a great web or like the jeweled net of Indra. You realize that where we've gotten ourselves in trouble is with some basic assumptions. And these basic assumptions that we can use other beings for our comfort and advancement, that we can own them, those assumptions are what is the cause behind all of these different-- whether it's the rainforest or the oil spills-- all the way it's that basic assumption. So it seems to me that whatever you're working on, you're working on that basic problematique. And if you thought you were doing it all by yourself, you'd be such a pill to live with. www.globalonenessproject.org - Footage courtesy of the Pachamama Alliance