1. All major religious leaders confer and discuss the state of the world and release a joint statement of unity, world peace, promotion of creation care, nuclear disarmament, condemnation of military aggression toward other nations, and support for all nations to collaborate in ending world hunger and severe poverty.
    

2. A total restructuring of the United Nations to increase their global influence and to guarantee their actions will always be in harmony with their “Earth Charter” launched in 2000. (see https://earthcharter.org). Nations that are aggressors toward other nations should not have veto power in the General Assembly. The United Nations should take the lead on world population stabilization. The planet was growing at 0.90% in 2023. This means that in 78 years, the 8 billion people will double to 16 billion.
    

3. Nationally, there needs to be new Federal legislation to remove dark money from political elections, re-establish voting rights to promote more people to vote rather than less, and new safeguards to protect our democracy from the lawlessness and corruption of the current administration so this can never happen again. Also, I think globally we are experiencing the rise of the Divine Feminine; therefore, the increase of women in leadership roles in religion, science, and politics must continue.
    

4. A new and sustainable economic model must take precedence over the current linear, production-consumption, and throwaway model. There is no away. As long as the Gross Domestic Product remains one of our leading economic indicators without the subtraction of the negative impacts on our environment, we will continue to do very negative things and call it (good) growth. The linear “throughput” tube needs to become circular and sustainable. This movement must include a rapid increase in sustainable energy resources, a rapid decrease in our dependence on fossil fuels and non-renewable energy sources, and an all-out national and global effort toward maximum energy conservation. The subsidies that the fossil fuel industry receives must be eliminated and shifted towards an all-out effort towards renewables.
    

5. Major revisions toward water, land, and farming management must be implemented immediately. Sustainable and Regenerative farming practices must become the primary model. The massive use of chemical pesticides, commercially produced fertilizers, and susceptible, large monoculture crop farming must become a thing of the past. Regional economic practices that eliminate the massive transportation of goods to the marketplace must be developed quickly. The monies from the pesticide and fertilizer industries must be banned from financing our higher educational institutions that provide agricultural and farming programs. The Federal Government's “Farm Bill” would be a great place to start. Subsidies to farmers must shift from agribusiness farming to those farmers who utilize Regenerative Farming Practices. These include decreased tilling to restore and conserve the soil, the rotation of farm animals throughout their farms provides natural fertilizer to feed their crops, and refusing to pollute the land and waterways with toxic chemical pesticides and fertilizers. The indigenous people can provide strong leadership in the areas of land and water management, such as the use of fire in forest and farm management. Their knowledge of the interconnectedness of the “web of life” will be essential in the transformation to this new paradigm. A global understanding of “All Our Relations” must be nurtured into fruition.
    

These are some of my thoughts, and I hope this will encourage you to put down on paper your vision of the future. Our society is amid a deconstruction of all our major institutions. It will take creativity, ingenuity, and bold imagination to transform our institutions into sustainable ones. The task seems daunting, but we must start somewhere. Let your imagination go wild and dream. We must look for leaders at all levels, religious, local, regional, state, and national, who have the courage to support these kinds of ideas. Returning to the status quo will only lead to more destruction and harm to all creation, including humanity. We must push to be bold and courageous and demand change. We owe it to ourselves and our future generations and to all of God’s Creation to demand the change.