Building New Earth

The planet doesn’t need more people producing. It needs more people healing

In this pivotal episode, host Robin Richardson steps back from first‑person storytelling to map the crossroads facing humanity. She sketches two diverging timelines “Old Earth,” driven by technocratic control or chaotic collapse, and “New Earth,” a network of small, land‑based communities that heal both people and planet. Drawing on Buddhist ideas of transmigration, quantum perspectives on reality‑selection, and her own visionary experiences, Richardson argues that personal action, not mere positive thinking, determines which path we each inhabit. Listeners are invited to consider every purchase, project, and relationship as a vote for descent or ascent, asking: will we surrender our agency to machines, or ground our lives in mud, bamboo, and mutual care?

She then outlines the practical groundwork for New Earth: buying acreage, erecting simple yurts and cob dwellings, growing food in harmony with the soil, and mastering synchronicity‑based “manifestation” to attract resources and trustworthy collaborators. Richardson acknowledges the challenges: money, labour, community dynamics, yet frames them as rites of passage into a freer, more beautiful civilization. The episode closes with a call to shed ego‑driven ambitions, mourn old dreams of jet‑set fame, and commit fully to tending Earth and soul together.