Transcript for Mary Evelyn Tucker: Can We Evolve Fast Enough?

Can we evolve fast enough--? is a very critical question. And people are asking this in many parts of the world who are radically concerned about the environment, or involved in sustainability movements, or even government officials who are beginning to get this. There was just a talk last week at the Yale School of Forestry. Is China going to run out of water? I mean, these are absolutely critical issues. And, if we're concerned about the oil wars, the water wars are going to be even more alarming. I do feel-- Although I don't think we can predict fully. But I do sense that the possibility for human evolution, human consciousness, is absolutely at hand. Is already taking place. And that, with these alternative ways of being that have grown in the periphery of our societies and other societies around the world, are coming into the center. Are being valued. Ecological economics-- Green politics-- Alternative technologies-- Sustainable farming and food. All of these that have been worked on so carefully by people. Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson and David Orr. The greening of buildings and the plant life of the plains that Wes has been working on, and so on, and farming that Wendell has worked on for so long. These are now being valued. Van Jones, green jobs. They're at the center, I think, of things now. That suggests that this evolution is very much in process. But, if we have a reverence and respect for moving it forward with deep spiritual grounding, I think we can do it.