Never Lose Sight of Your Elephant
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Unveiling Hope in Crisis: Tackling the Roots of Our Global Challenges
From droughts and floods to wildfires, poverty, and climate change, humanity is confronting escalating crises that challenge our social, economic, and environmental stability. Yet, as Sarah Savory reveals in her groundbreaking new book, these are not isolated problems—they are interconnected symptoms of a deeper issue: the failure of conventional management practices to harmonize with the natural systems that sustain us.
Drawing from innovative ecological discoveries and decades of practical insight, this book offers a transformative approach to understanding and addressing the root causes of global instability. Through clear and actionable insights, Sarah empowers readers of all ages to not only comprehend the mechanisms driving environmental degradation but also implement scalable solutions to restore balance and build resilience.
“Sarah’s book rethinks education and our role in nature’s ecosystems. We are all interconnected, and we must remember that if we are to continue to evolve.”
What will students gain from this workbook?
- A clear understanding of what people manage vs what we produce and that our
individual and collective social and economic stability is connected to, and depends entirely on, environmental health.
- An understanding of why our management is causing a consistent decline in our social and economic stability.
- Learn to make decisions in a way that guarantees an increase in our individual and collective social, economic and environmental stability.
- Understand the importance of choosing the right actions, practices and policies for whatever unique social, economic and environmental circumstances the action will impact.
- Understand the impact of (and urgent need for change) in the way we decide our actions at an organizational level which is where we manage ourselves, our economies and our environment on a huge scale through impersonal policy decisions.
- Knowledge of Earth’s four ecosystem processes and how they function because these are the foundation which sustains all human endeavor – all civilizations, all economies and all life.
- Understand the mounting symptoms of global desertification and how it causes the climate to change.
- Gain new insight into how and why Earth’s different environments respond completely differently to rest at either end of the brittleness scale.
- An understanding of our current environmental-management tools and an introduction to a new (biological) tool that we can use to help reverse the desertification of the world’s brittle environments.
This new approach to decision-making also provides many benefits to our personal lives:
- It guarantees our choices align with what truly matters to us.
- Ensures both personal and professional growth.
- Helps us to set boundaries.
- Strengthens friendships and relationships.
- Helps to prevent and resolve conflict.
- Makes career decisions easier.
- Strengthens family, community and cultural values.
- And unites people beyond their personal differences towards a common environmental
ethic.
A Note From The Author
Sarah Savory
I am the single mother of Luke (14) and Mika (11) and I am the youngest daughter of Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory. I was born, brought up and live in Zimbabwe...like my father, I grew up passionate about wildlife and I have dedicated my life to making a difference...as a result the discoveries you will make in this book were born of a deep passion and love of the wildlife and the people of Africa. But this is for all wildlife and all people. I have spent the last 8 years developing, writing and have recently published this workbook which is based on my father’s ground-breaking new management and ecological insights: these discoveries offer us answers and scalable solutions to addressing mass global biodiversity loss which in turn causes a relative increase in social and economic problems.
I wrote this workbook because I want to share knowledge and understanding of these exciting new discoveries which show why our management is causing problems and how each of us can learn to make decisions in a new way – one that will guarantee our actions will have a consistently positive impact on the world around us.
This book offers hope for our future by giving us answers and solutions to reversing the world’s most pressing problems, but while the adjustment needed is simple, it does involve a mind-shift in how we view and manage ourselves in relation to the natural world. I believe that in order to inspire any change at all, we first need to feel an emotional and a personal connection to the change – because when we are inspired as individuals we are naturally motivated to talk about the need for change in our broader communities. By motivating and empowering individuals in new thinking, knowledge begins to ripple through communities, inspiring collective change.