It is essential for our survival as a species that we reverse the degradation of the earth's life support systems. Agriculture and industry organised by principles of capital accumulation are inherently destroying their environment thus it is necessary contradicts the ecological knowledge gathered since the 19th century. Thus a new and ecological civilisation must be non-capitalistic. Its main pillars will include the self-organisation of living and working communities, biodiversity, and in several cases self-sufficiency that are matched with global cultural interchange and cooperation.