Restorative justice should be among the key policies of an ecocivilization.

A utopian vision needs a robust theory of change.

Given planetary limits, we need to learn to live with less.

Let us redesign and reweave together a future based on flourishing and coexistence.

Grassroots groups in the Global South are imagining and actualizing a world beyond capitalist modernity.

Transformation requires humility, inner change, and clarity of vision.

We need a sharper vision of planetary subsidiarity to match platform and scale.

We need a new social contract.

We are undergoing a profound change in human consciousness and communication.

An ecocivilization must address industrial agriculture and global trade.

Let’s remember our interdependence so that we can be true participants in a living universe.

There is no path forward to a world of flourishing without struggle.

Transformation depends on right relationships.

New technologies are driving us toward Barbarization, but a revolution rooted in love and care remains possible.

Cultivating an ethic of care is essential to movement convergence.

States can play a major role in hastening collapse or enabling adaptation and transition.

To create an ecocivilization, we need to move past capitalism and learn from indigenous communities.

We need more than a transition; we need a transformation.

Education is essential in shaping the type of humans we want to foster.

We need groups across the Global South and Global North to convene regularly and work toward shared goals.

We have passed too many planetary boundaries: it’s time to rethink our concept of human agency.

Equal dignity for all is an essential grounding principle for collaborative global governance.

An ecological civilization cannot exist without a break from capitalism.

Without a commitment to a healthy biosphere, any steps to reconfigure the human endeavor will ultimately fail.

An ecocivilization must be ecosocialist.

We need momentum for revolutionary transformation beyond capitalism.

Technology can be harnessed for joy and abundance rather than profit.

Let us be defenders of cultures—plural, multiple cultures.

By pairing principles and research, we can turn small islands of coherence into a global reality.

A co-evolutionary framework can offer the theory of change needed for socio-ecological transformation.

Deep-rooted change requires significant attention to the epistemological and ontological dimensions of sustainability.

Education deserves a central place in the ecocivilization discussion.

We need to challenge the hegemony of neoliberalism while also anticipating the unexpected.

Transcending capitalism requires us all to make different decisions.

There can be no ecocivilization without a revival of all forms of commons.

Theatrical traditions can shed light on the agency needed for systemic transformation.

A rights of nature framework is more than just a legal tool: it goes hand in hand with a cultural transformation.

Transformation must be grounded in the pluriverse of struggles, knowledges, and practices that have long resisted capitalist modernity.

Hopeful futures are a better organizing tool than the threat of dystopia.

Our theory of change must include providing a compelling vision and building a big enough movement.

Bold incrementalism can be a precursor to transformative action.

Jeremy Lent responds to comments on his essay “Toward an Ecocivilization.”