If we want to save humanity and many other species along with us from extinction, we have to radically change our way of life.  That first starts with a shift within ourselves. Modern cultures view humans as separate from the natural world. Older cultures know we are not.  The Maori worldview makes scientific sense to me because we are all the Children of the Big Bang. I was 6 years old when Carl Sagan's Cosmos premiered on PBS, and even so young I was enraptured by it.  Inspired that I was literally made of "star stuff", the heavier elements created in the furnace of stars and flung through the universe to coalesce into planets, and eventually form the tissues of my body. Genetically, all species share more commonalities than differences.  We share 60% of genes with fruit flies and 98.8% with chimpanzees.  We are kin. All life shares that same spark of fire lit when the universe started, and then when life began.  Perhaps indeed if we asked ourselves of everything we do, whether it fosters and deepens our kinships or destroys our relations we would make very different choices. About politics.  About fossil fuels.  About capitalism. About what we eat and what we buy.  And we'd be so, so much happier. I find this view of life far more spiritually nourishing than any modern religion.