This is a truly unique age of human history.
These next few decades will determine whether humanity is a species worthy to call this universe a home.
Or, perhaps, our species is but another doomed evolutionary experiment.
The grave challenges ahead are common knowledge.
The challenge of a climate breakdown.
Of the Sixth Great Extinction.
Of global capitalism itself.
But these environmental, social and political challenges are reflections of deeper and more spiritual challenges.
They are challenges that relate to how it is we live our lives on this planet. More specifically, the challenges of greed, and of fear.
Greed accounts for so many of our problems today. We are living and breathing an economic system that has let the greedy take charge.
Is it any wonder there is so much pollution and waste now, circulating in our oceans and in our atmosphere? Is it any wonder that forests are burning, the ice in the arctic is melting, and that other species are dying?
These are the direct consequences of human greed.
And the challenge of fear is also great.
Fear of changing our ways. Fear of imagining that we could live better lives. Fear of the unknown. The fear that keeps a victim with his or her abuser for a lifetime, a slave with his or her master, an exploited person under the yoke of an oppressor.
This fear is real.
Human Rights Pulse is an experiment in a time of greed and a time of fear. The essential question of Human Rights Pulse is a simple one—can writing change the world?
Can writing give us the courage to greet our fears, and the faith to calm the fierce energy of greed?
Can writing build a community of doers and thinkers, who become ever more aligned towards the precepts of human rights and civilization?
Can writing open up doors of imagination to what the world could be?
We will all find out. I am thrilled to be experimenting with writing and with Human Rights Pulse.
I am thrilled at the possibility that the world can change its ways.
Dave Inder Comar is the co-founder of Human Rights Pulse and a practising attorney.