Coconut Thinking Dan Burgess: Passengers and Crew on Spaceship Earth
May 4, 2025
Dan Burgess, a regenerative practitioner and founder of the Spaceship Earth podcast, dives into humanity's role on our living planet. He emphasizes the need for connection and participation in communities to tackle ecological challenges. Burgess also reflects on individuality and cultural perspectives, advocating for authentic engagement. He shares his transformative journey through climate activism and community-building initiatives. Ultimately, the conversation highlights the importance of introspection and relationality in fostering meaningful change.
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From Passenger to Crew on Spaceship Earth
- Modern culture largely views humans as passengers on Spaceship Earth benefiting few and causing extraction, transaction, and distraction.
- True participation means becoming crew and engaging with Earth’s living systems relationally as part of the whole.
Prioritize Internal Transformation Work
- Stop focusing on recruiting more people and start doing the personal internal work to decolonize yourself and your community.
- Create space within yourself to process and embody transformation instead of just pushing content externally.
Center Earth To Expand Possibility
- Centering life on the Earth system allows trust in a vast, ancient intelligence supporting all life.
- This widens our perception beyond narrow modern views of what it means to be human and connected.
