Emmanuel Sumithran Gnanamanickam, a community leader and manager of an NGO providing services to tribal areas in South India, questions what is really meant by the term "global village."
(2:48)
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how our current average lifestyle requires more than nature can generate. Mathis offers two possibilities for dealing with this imbalance:
(1:50)
Zulu Sangoma (healer) Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa describes the African philosophy, Ubuntu—"I am because you are"—as the root of humanity's interconnectedness.
(2:22)
Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke tells us that to discover one's own interconnectedness, we have only to ask the questions we might not ask until the end of life:
(1:55)
Museum director Mia Hanak describes what it means to be a global citizen and asks, what can we give back to the world?
(1:38)
When asked whether he could foresee reconciliation between Aboriginal and European Australians, Roger Thomas, professor and director of Wilto Yerlo Center for Australian Indigenous Research
(3:28)
Te Taru White, the Kaihatu (joint leader and curator) of Aotearoa New Zealand's national museum, explains the interconnectedness of life from a Maori perspective.
(4:51)
Zulu Sangoma (healer) Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa calls on all human beings to awaken the mother mind, that part of human consciousness that feels what is happening in the world.
(2:21)
Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge suggests the need for large numbers of people to get involved in creating a more humane world.
(1:10)
Spoken word poet and activist Drew Dellinger talks about the need for a democracy that takes the need of all peoples into account, as well as the needs of all life on earth.
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