What our necessities are will be revealed only through knowing Nature’s balance
Question from the Internet:
“Do you worry about the role that you play in global warming? In what ways do you actually try to shrink your personal footprint?”
Yes I am worried about it, and I know that my personal footprint is way exceeding my actual necessities.
There is a problem though.
I don’t know - and I don’t think anybody knows right now - what true necessities are!
After all, we have been brought up, educated in an artificial Human bubble as far as we can remember.
Our “necessities” are based on the values, aspirations of our actual societes.
Our present society - basically since the industrial revolution - is based on reckless, insatiable overconsumption, accumulating goods, services, resources for ourselves, prompted by the aggregate demand generated by marketing, media, entertainment and peer, societal pressure.
So what we honestly consider as our necessities we can’t live without, is way beyond what we actually need. And all the recommendations, suggested “solutions” are arbitrary, as we simply have no innate sense of what is actual balance and homeostasis in Nature!
So in order to know what our actual, healthy, normal, modern Natural necessities are, first we would need to integrate into Nature’s perfectly balanced system. Only then could we sense and follow the optimal parameters of natural necessities and available resources.
In the meantime we received “help”, as the pandemic and subsequent crisis will probably wipe out most of the excesses, non-essential production and consumption, putting us into a forced rehab - while billions of people will become unemployed.
While this is unfolding (it has already started) it is very important that we initiate a unique, purposeful and practical “Integral Education”, so people actually understand the process we were forced into by Nature and how we could start controlling the necessary changes instead of being forced into them.
People are losing their jobs, they are already flocking to the streets with different frustrations, growing anger, hate which is very easy to ignite.
Thus the sooner we help people to understand why we are in crisis (unnatural, excessive, cancer-like Human system) and how we can proactively align ourselves with Nature’s balanced system, the more likely we can avoid a global meltdown, explosion.
Only when we consciously, methodically integrated into Nature will we finally understand how much we should be producing, consuming, how many children we need, how we need to connect to each other and Nature!