MANIFESTO

The Ecofuturist International seeks a non-violent yet radical and sudden break with the past human history of unsustainable existence. But to seek "sustainability" is not sufficient, for too much damage to our tiny planet has already been done.

We must repair the damage humanity has inflicted and radically restore the biological carrying capacity of the earth through technological, artistic, cultural and social intervention. We must utilise humanity's awesome technological prowess, used thus far in history to mark humankind's existence in the universe, to do the exact opposite: to erase all traces our destructive existence.

We stand for what we stand on.

The fundamental problem with human societies is that nearly everything we do, from taking a bite of food to flushing a toilet, damages the biological systems of our planet. With nearly every action, every gesture we effortlessly degrade the biosphere. Our very existence has become absurd destructive lunacy.

In the words of Edward Abbey: "Too much proximity to folly makes it seem normal."

The Ecofuturist International seeks not just to make our existence "sustainable" but to completely reverse the paradigm. "Saving the planet" shouldn't require effort or conscientiousness (although for the time being it does and it will). We seek to transform the fundamental structure of society and culture such that our normal everyday activities, down to the most unconscious gesture, not only sustains the biosphere but restores it.

This requires diverting, if not overthrowing approximately 160,000 years of human evolution.

As Jared Diamond observes "All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use." We have now more knowledge and more hindsight and foresight than any other humans who have ever lived. We also have immense access to simultaneous realtime global communication. We have unprecedented opportunity to choose which useful new customs to adopt and which useless or destructive cultural practices to abandon with an unprecendented global view. We are only restricted by our somewhat backwards, 160,000-year-old brains, which nonetheless somehow allow us at least the possibility to change, and change radically.

While we primarily seek to do this through art, we do not view "art" in an isolated, narrow context. Instead we define art in the most multiplicitous way possible, capable of assimilating and being assimilated by any other medium. Today we see architects making art, artists designing cars, chefs displaying their works in modern art galleries, musicians designing skyscrapers, and post-modern theorists becoming farmers. We embrace this pluriformity.