The Ecority Covenant

According to philosopher and futurist Richard David Hames, we don't need better policies or improved institutions. We need a leap of consciousness into an entirely new global society. In this founding charter of The Ecority Trust, Hames argues that industrial economism—built on separation, extraction, infinite growth, and mechanism—is not a failing system but a dying one. Its collapse is already under way. The question is whether the transition will be catastrophic or conscious. Hames names fifteen barriers that stand in humanity's way, from the democratic deficit and broken economics to the spiritual meaning crisis and the myth of the heroic individual leader. He then offers a radical alternative: 'ecority'—a portmanteau of 'ecology' and 'security', undertaken with 'integrity'. At the heart of an ecority world lies the Trimunia, three simultaneous questions: Is this good for the children? Is this syntrophic for the living world? Is this beneficial for each other? From these flow ten governance principles and six interpenetrating dimensions of regenerative civilisation—spirituality, politics, economics, societies, cultures, and the Gaian ethos. This is not a blueprint. It's a portal and an invitation. The imaginal cells of a new world are already here. They are already organising. The only question is whether you will become one of them.