The solution to our problems is changing ourselves to for Nature’s integrality

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readAug 3, 2020

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Question from the Internet:

“Why do we persist on trying to find new ways to solve the problems we’ve caused on this planet, rather than coming to the realization that the problem is there are too many people?”

Because that is not the problem. First of all, the number of people doesn’t matter as it is our excessively consuming footprint that is the problem.

Moreover there are more and more studies suggesting that while Human population might peak in 20–30 years around 10 billion, after that there will be a sharp downturn, the world’s population sharply decreasing thereafter as it has been already happening in the “developed part” of the world.

The problem with the world is our self-serving, self-justifying nature with its instable desire to consume everything for its own sake.

Thus it doesn’t matter how many people live on Earth, it doesn’t matter if we can ever colonize other planets, as long as we don’t change our nature we will consume and destroy everything like cancer or viruses.

Thus the solution is a special, purposeful and practical educational method that is aimed at changing how we relate to each other and to the world, which method can also help us - without coercion, oppression through free choice and full understanding - to scale down to a lifestyle within the optional parameters of natural necessities and available resources.

With such a lifestyle combined with fair, equal distribution - according to reach person’s mutually responsible, mutually complement contribution to the collective - we will be able to provide a healthy, comfortable, sustainable life for all.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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