Episode 146: Randy Hayes’ Roadmap for an Ecological Civilization
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Randy Hayes, in Hopi Southwest
Randy Hayes has been described in the Wall Street Journal as “an environmental pit bull.” He is Executive Director of Foundation Earth, an organization fostering the big rethink from the ground up to help protect the planet’s life support systems. Hayes, a former filmmaker, then founder of Rainforest Action Network, is a veteran of many high-visibility corporate accountability campaigns and has advocated for biocentric worldviews and Indigenous peoples throughout the world.
Show Notes
In this episode of the Rewilding Earth Podcast, Jack Humphrey talks with conservation legend Randy Hayes, founder of Rainforest Action Network, who presents an urgent call to action for humanity to rectify our sins against nature. Randy outlines a bold and detailed plan involving five societal systems to achieve an ecological civilization: reducing subsidies to extractive industries, transforming energy consumption and production systems, shifting to 100% ecological farming, and protecting the planet’s life support system via large-scale rewilding. He emphasizes the need for global campaigns, educational outreach, and innovative communication strategies to mobilize efforts at scale. Despite daunting obstacles, including political resistance and economic vested interests, Randy underscores the crucial necessity of this ecological U-turn for future generations of all life on Earth.
00:00 Introduction: The Age of Implementation
00:44 Rewilding Earth Podcast: Randy Hayes Returns
01:45 Randy’s Plan for an Ecological Civilization
03:36 The Five Societal Systems for Change
04:41 Energy Consumption and Production
06:19 Educational Campaigns and Media Efforts
07:40 Challenges and Political Realities
20:46 The Need for a Great Ecological U-Turn
26:04 Rewilding and Agricultural Shifts
37:54 Conclusion: Building a Better World
Extra Credit
Director of Digital Outreach (D.O.D.O.) for The Rewilding Institute
Host and Producer of the Rewilding Earth Podcast
Jack started Rewilding work as Executive Director of Sky Island Alliance in the mid-1990’s, organizing the Sky Island Wildlands Network design, ripping up illegal roads on forest service lands, installing wolf acclimatization pens on Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch & conducting howling surveys to help make way for the final stage of the Lobo reintroduction program in the Southwest.
Through the years, Jack has worked with Dave Foreman and the Rewilding Gang to further Rewilding initiatives and education.