CARBON EMITTERS ANONYMOUS

 

THE TWELVE STEPS OF ANTHROPOCENES ANONYMOUS (Individual)

 

A.A’s Twelve Steps are a set of ethics, spiritual in their nature, which offer a new way of life on earth. They are the actual work of recovery that empower the compulsive carbon emitter to expel the obsession with consuming carbon.

 

 

 

                  We admitted we were powerless over carbon emissions and related

                            behaviors—that our lives had become unmanageable.

 

 

 

 

                  Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore

                                                    us to  soundness of judgment.

 

 

 

                  Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of

                                                 The Earth as we  understood Her.

 

 

 

                      Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

 

 

 

 

 

                 Admitted to The Earth, to ourselves, and to another sentient and

                           non-sentient beings the exact nature of our wrongs.

 

 

 

                  We’re entirely ready to have The Earth remove all these

                                              defects of character.

 

 

 

                          Humbly asked Her to remove our shortcomings.

 

 

 

                 Made a list of all persons, ecosystems, ozone layers, bodies of 

                 salt-water, fish, wetlands, bleached coral, primary and tropical

                 forests, slashed-and-burned farms, contaminated soils, cows,

                 endangered animals, the more than a million species facing extinction

                 due to diminishing habitats, changing ecosystems and acid rain, parks, 

                 golf courses, hydrologic cycles, thermal expansions, ice caps and glaciers,

                 air qualities, global populations, cultures, landfills,  strip mined topless mountains,

                crude oil spills,  lands suffering from oil extraction and drilling, and illegally logged                                  woods, we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

 

                 Made direct amends to such persons, ecosystems, ozone layers,

                 bodies of salt-water, fish, wetlands, bleached coral, primary and

                 tropical forests, slashed-and-burned farms, contaminated soils,

                 cows, endangered animals, the more than a million species facing

                 extinction due to diminishing habitats, changing ecosystems and acid

                 rain, parks, golf courses, hydrologic cycles, thermal expansions, ice caps

                 and glaciers, air qualities, global populations, cultures, landfills, strip mined topless                          mountains, crude oil spills, lands suffering from oil extraction and drilling, and illegally                       logged woods,  wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

 

 

                  Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong

                                           promptly admitted it.

 

 

 

                  Sought through prayer, meditation, and informed action, to

                  improve our conscious contact with The Earth, as we understood

                  Her, praying only for knowledge of Her will for us and the power

                                          to carry that out.

 

 

 

                    Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps,

                    we tried to carry this message to compulsive carbon emitters,

                                and to practice these principles in all our lives.

 

 

 

 

All iconography courtesy of the Noun Project. Creative Attribution Info is as follows: Heart by Emily Keller from The Noun Project, Icon by SuperAtic LABS from The Noun Project, Confession by Luis Prado from The Noun Project, Thinking by Michael V. Suriano from The Noun Project, Chat by ARudmann from The Noun Project, Air pollution by Gemma Garner from The Noun Project, Community Garden by Matt Brooks from The Noun Project, List by Hedie Assadi Joulaee from The Noun Project, Conservation by Donata Bologna from The Noun Project, Team by Ahmed Trochilidae from The Noun Project,