A love-powered systems shift for World Environment Day

If I ruled the world …

we’d begin every day with the truth:

we are nature.

Not part of it.

Not separate from it.

We are it.

Cells, systems, species, seasons —

you, me, mycelium, and mitochondria.

All connected. All essential.

And if we really lived like that —

like everything we do sends a ripple through the web of life —

well, that would change everything.

If I ruled the world, here’s what we’d rewire first:

🧠 Learning would be whole-systems and hands-on

Science wouldn’t sit in a textbook — it would live in the compost bin.
Math would measure the curves of a river.
Technology would amplify care, not just convenience.
Art would remind us why it all matters.

We’d raise a generation of eco-engineers, seed scientists, circular thinkers, and soil storytellers.

Not someday.
Right now.

🐛 Every child would be trusted as a changemaker

We wouldn’t wait for them to “grow up.”
We’d listen now.
Fund now.
Co-create solutions with them — not hand them a mess to fix later.

Because children are the most under-utilised climate thinkers on the planet.
And their ideas? Wild. Real. Future-shaping.

🌍 Our homes would be learning labs

We’d talk about feedback loops at the breakfast table.
We’d use sensors to measure rain tanks and smiles.
We’d map our personal waste stream and then rewild it.
Data and dinner would share a table.

Because the revolution isn’t in the classroom.
It’s in the kitchen, the laundry, the back fence, the walk to school.

🧬 We’d centre biomimicry in everything

Design like a forest.
Clean like a wetland.
Communicate like bees.
Educate like fungi — quietly, relationally, underground.

And when we forget, we’d ask the oldest teachers:
the river, the crow, the coral, the fire stick farmer.

❤️ And above all, we’d lead with love

Not the fluffy kind.
The resilient kind.
The love that says: “This system isn’t working — let’s grow a new one.”
The love that composts shame, rebuilds trust, and teaches through care.

Because the opposite of climate despair isn’t hope.
It’s agency.
It’s connection.
It’s remembering who we are.

I don’t rule the world.
But if I did?

Every family would feel powerful.
Every school would be a lab for love and logic.

Every system would spiral toward life.
And World Environment Day wouldn’t be a once-a-year reminder —
it would be our daily practice.

So here’s the gift, from my heart to yours:

Teach systems
Model care
Trust kids
Rethink what “education” means.
Make sure the story we’re telling them is one they’d be proud to live in.

We are nature.
We are educators.
We are wired to care.

Happy World Environment Day.
Let’s rewire the world together.

💚 dirtgirl

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