Biosphere restoration will be a journey with many mileposts and no fixed destination.

With each passing year, the ongoing damage to our planet’s life support systems will be slowed, halted, reversed and repaired. With each passing decade, our streams, rivers, and lakes, air and soil will become cleaner, safer, more hospitable to life. Each generation of humans will leave its bioregional home with a more fully and effectively functional environmental support system than the one it inherited. Aquifers will be recharged, toxic waste dumps cleaned up, dams removed, stream banks revegetated, clear cuts reseeded, soil enriched, grasslands expanded, wetlands restored. With the recovery of natural habitat and the rebuilding of ecosystem structures that evolved over eons, so too, whole communities of plants and animals will be restored to full functionality and vitality. Each generation of humans will look out with immense satisfaction over a landscape that has been deeply and permanently enriched by their inspired creativity and by the fruits of their labor.

Human population must and will return to and stabilize at a level that is sustainable at a comfortable standard of living and in balance with the surrounding natural world, such that the richness and diversity of life on earth can also be sustained in its full glory in all parts of the planet. This goal may require not merely a reduction of human population growth, but a reduction of human population over time.

To meet these extremely ambitious goals, human society, government, industry, commerce—all aspects of human culture, and ultimately core aspects of human belief, metaphysics and spirituality--must change fundamentally and radically.

Throughout the next century and future centuries, all participants in the Earth Restoration Project will work both independently and collaboratively to plan for and effectuate those changes to existing human belief, practice and behavior, which will enable the maximum possible restoration and enhancement of our planet’s life support systems as well as human society and our own quality of life.