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Human Settlements Review, Volume 1, Number 1, 2010 Perhaps the clearest calls for the development of a new jurisprudence have come from the eminent American cultural historian, religious scholar and eco-philosopher Thomas Berry. He argued that the legal systems in countries such as the United States of America, legitimised and facilitated the exploitation and destruction of Earth (Cullinan, 2010). Berry (as quoted in Cullinan, 2010:146) argued that : “We need a jurisprudence that would provide for the legal rights of geological and biological as well as human components of the Earth community. A legal system exclusively for humans is not realistic. Habitat of all species, for instance, must be given legal status as sacred and inviolable.” Conclusion In order to turn the current crises into an opportunity for a successful, sustainable and everlasting change, where all people, wherever they may be, can live fulfilling healthy and yet more ecologically compatible lives we need to all take action within the sphere of our own consumption and ecological behavior. This article has tried to shed some light on how to transcend and include and unpack some deeper issues of behavior, culture, politics and economics. In much of our response and engagement with sustainable development there is still little connection between deeper levels of human motivation and ecological problems. Many of our problems represent fundamental challenges to our institutions and organizations philosophies and paradigms and demand a “change of culture” (The Worldwatch Institute Report 2010). The author believes that the coming change is not primarily about climate change and sustainable development but more importantly about the fundamentals of human civilisation that generate climate change and social exclusion as a by-product. Our existing compartmentalised sciences and epistemologies are utterly unable to describe the current complexity. A common world if there is going to be one, is something we will have to build tooth and nail together with a willingness to use new methods of thought and many levels of thinking. A common world is not something we come to recognize, as though it had always been here. To quote David Orr (2007) again “as design professionals we hold the keys to creating a far better world than that in prospect, but only if we respond creatively, smartly, wisely and quickly to these facts” (par.11). The profession should be impatient for the means of incorporating the ‘new’ nature of nature into the “old” methods of design – this is the essential adventure of our time. We need to accept the learning challenge that draws upon the complementary physical, mental, emotional, spatial and spiritual dimensions of the learner, that enchant the learner and designer to cultivate earth-mindfulness necessary for sustainable living. 140
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