We need to rethink what is possible.

At the rate we are going now, disaster will continue to strike. Colorado’s fires will be hotter. Water will be commodified. Generations of us will be victim to crushing pressures of ecological ruin. The world is approaching a deadly era of resource deficit and conflict.

Fortunately, the fight to keep our species alive isn’t as hopeless as it might seem. History shows very little that can’t be accomplished with the power of the people, and enormous change is more possible now than ever before. Our greatest strength is in the changing of minds and the presence of an active and well-informed public body to shift the course away from the end of intelligent life on Earth.

Here are a few principles of the show:

A re-imagining is necessary

No longer can we say we are doomed. Negativity is an emission of its own. Humanity has always shaped the Earth to our liking and we can do it again. We will re-introduce hope to the situation.

We will make people in awe of nature’s beauty

Being in awe of nature makes us more patient, compassionate, and happy. It pauses the endless hum of human goings-on, erasing the briefness of life, and connecting us again with the only home we’ve ever known.

We will present a landscape of varied interpretations and solutions to the problem

Imagination has always been a tool to make life easier. Now it must be the tool by which we let life see another day. The crisis requires a breadth of ideas and perspectives, as no single solution will ever be enough.

We believe our existence in the universe is staggeringly improbable. Life is the greatest cosmic fluke, and to waste it by sabotage cannot be our destiny. We can save the staggeringly improbable; the freakishly unique; the mind-bogglingly exquisite collection of coincidences that make up our existence. But it takes a journey from apathy to action.

As Carl Sagan said, “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”