We can build a real “Garden of Eden" on Earth — if we change ourselves first

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readNov 30, 2020

Question from the Internet:

“How can we transform the food industry and even the global economy and decrease poverty and hunger by devising low-tech, sustainable, and local solutions for saving fruit peels and treating them as food and medicine?”

We have the technology, the blueprints to make Earth a real life “Garden of Eden" for much more than 8 billion people.

The problem is with our mindset, the values, aspirations our Human system — especially Western society — is built upon.

Modern Human society is built on insatiable, excessive overproduction, ruthless and exclusive competition, success at the expense of others and at the expense of Nature. Despite existing in Nature fully integrated, finely balanced system as one of the species, we act like cancer, everything we plan and do is destructive, self-destructive. We turn our best finds, inventions to excessive personal profit or weapons or both.

If we needed any further proof, we can see how individuals, nations, companies behave through the pandemic.

Thus we won’t be able to solve any of our mounting global problems, we won’t be able to safeguard our collective survival, unless we learn how to build mutually responsible, mutually complementing cooperation, a way to rebuild Humanity on better, fairer, safer, more peaceful and most of all more sustainable values, aspirations.

Since we have to do this above, against our inherently self-serving, self-justifying nature, we need a very unique, purposeful and practical educational method.

Only after that can we use our technology, ideas, blueprints effectively, positively, constructively.

https://youtu.be/zf1CkP7GM8E

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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.