Category: Nature

  • The World Is Waking Up — Are You…?

    The World Is Waking Up — Are You…?

    Our “Only for the Brave” campaign just ended — and it outperformed expectations by more than 102%! It was a so-called Blaze campaign where WordPress share a post to many more potential readers than I have on my blog.

    This  meant thousands of new readers across the world have now seen the call to challenge their beliefs — and many have joined the journey.

    For me, this milestone isn’t just about clicks or stats. It’s about connection.

    Every person who paused to look, to feel something, to wonder if a better world is possible — that’s one more spark of awareness lighting up the collective mind.

    If you didn’t get the ebook during the super-low promotion, don’t worry — it’s still just $4.99 on all ebook platforms. That’s less than a cappuccino for a story that invites you to imagine what life could look like beyond money, fear, and limitation.

    ✨ Waking Up isn’t just a fantasy. It’s a reflection of what humanity could become when trust replaces trade, and creativity flows freely again.

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    The world is waking up.

    One reader — one brave soul — at a time.

  • Everyone a Landlord — From Ownership to Stewardship

    Everyone a Landlord — From Ownership to Stewardship

    For centuries, humanity has measured success through ownership — of land, of things, even of each other’s time. It has shaped our countries, our cities, our politics, and our sense of worth. Yet beneath the surface of this structure lies a quiet absurdity: how can we truly own what was here long before us, and will remain long after?

    The next step in our evolution isn’t to extend ownership, but to outgrow it completely— to move from possession to participation, from control to care, from ownership to stewardship. That understanding, for me, began long ago in a house outside Oslo, Norway.

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    A Seed Planted in Childhood

    When I was young, my mother rented out rooms in our big house. She had inherited a bit of money, bought the house, and made ends meet by letting others live there.

    I saw people come and go — teachers, students, workers — handing over their rent month after month for something already built, already paid for. Even as a child, it didn’t feel right. Why should people have to pay just to exist somewhere? I really wanted everyone to be able to get free money just like us.

    But of course, I soon understood that if absolutely everyone owned houses there would be no one to rent them. There clearly was an imbalance in the world.

    That early sense of imbalance would later grow into a vision of a world where sanity rules instead of profit — where fairness isn’t an ideal, but a foundation.

    The Mirror of Ownership

    Later I saw how that household was a miniature version of Earth itself. Those who own — land, housing, resources — are sustained by those who don’t. Not always by cruelty, but by design.

    Ownership quietly governs who must work, who may rest, who lives with security, and who struggles with debt. And yet we seldom question it. We call it normal.

    But what if the very structure of ownership — the belief that life and land can belong to a few individuals — is the real flaw?

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    The Turning Point: Discovering a Sane Design

    Decades later, I discovered The Venus Project and its vision of a Resource-Based Economy (RBE) — and the pattern finally came together.

    Here was the model that made my lifelong intuition tangible. A system where ownership dissolves into stewardship — where resources are shared intelligently, technology serves all humanity, and access replaces price.

    With an RBE, my childhood idea of “everyone a landlord” could finally come true — not through rent and property, but through universal belonging. Everyone would, in effect, be a responsible owner — not of separate things, but of the shared planet itself.

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    The Ladder of Awakening: TMS → UBI → UO (RBE)

    Human progress toward sanity can be seen as an evolution of understanding:

    1. TMS – The Monetary System

    A structure built on ownership, scarcity and control. Humanity must earn its right to live.  A small part of humanity has taken control over something that should belong to everyone.

    2. UBI – Universal Basic Income

    A compassionate attempt to soften the edges of that system by redistributing purchasing power. A kind patch, but still a patch — money and ownership remains the gatekeeper.

    3. UO – Universal Ownership

    The realization that the next step is not redistribution but redesign. Everyone shares stewardship of the planet and its resources.

    That final stage — Universal Ownership — is the Resource-Based Economy: the world functioning on sanity, efficiency, and shared responsibility. We are all equal owners and stewards of Planet Earth.

    The Shape of Sanity

    In a sane world, we build things to last because waste is irrational.

    We share because collaboration works.

    We use technology to free, not enslave.

    We stop selling survival and start cultivating life.

    When ownership becomes stewardship, competition transforms into collaboration.

    Work becomes contribution.

    The economy becomes an ecosystem.

    The Moral Foundation

    At the root lies a truth so obvious we overlook it:

    The Earth was never meant to be owned.

    Just as the Moon was declared “the province of all humankind” under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty — belonging to no nation, corporation, or individual — so too can Earth be seen through that same lens. Our planet Earth, no less than the Moon, is a shared inheritance, not a possession. 

    The shift from ownership to stewardship begins with recognizing that no one can truly own what sustains us all — we can only care for it, together, as co-guardians of our common home.

    Money and ownership was once a tool for coordination — now it’s the master of everything.

    A Resource-Based Economy simply returns design and decision-making to where it belongs: within humanity itself, aligned with the wellbeing of all. Because when everyone belongs, no one has to pay rent on life anymore. 

    A New Dawn

    That journey — from confusion to clarity, from ownership to stewardship — is what inspired Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity.

    The book reflects what I’ve always believed: that sanity is possible, and that it begins with how we see ownership itself. Once we recognize that we already belong here, the rest unfolds naturally.

    Follow the former billionaire Benjamin Michaels into this vision of stewardship and belonging when he wakes up in a world where humanity already has awakened…

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  • What Is Actually a Gift Economy…?

    What Is Actually a Gift Economy…?

    Clarifying the Language of a New World

    Through the years, many terms have tried to describe humanity’s longing for a system beyond money — a world built on trust, collaboration, and natural balance.

    Words like Gift Economy, Local Exchange Trading System (LETS), Resource-Based Economy (RBE), and Natural Exchange System (NES) all point toward this awakening, yet they mean different things. Much of the confusion comes from how we understand one simple word: exchange.

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    Gift Economy — The Heart of Giving

    The Gift Economy celebrates generosity and connection.

    It’s about giving without expectation, trusting that what you contribute will circulate and return in another form, another time.

    Its strength is emotional and spiritual — the feeling of community that grows when we stop measuring and start caring.

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    The Transitional Bridge

    Before moneyless systems could be imagined on a large scale, communities experimented with alternative currencies.

    LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) created local credits for goods and services — one person’s debit was another’s credit.

    Time Banks traded hours instead of money — one hour of help equaled one hour owed.

    The eko-currency of Findhorn is to boost local trade, keep money circulating within the community, and provide low-interest loans to community projects, creating a stronger, more resilient local economy.

    All of these were inspiring steps away from national currencies and toward cooperation, yet they still relied on trading — a measured give-and-take, recorded somewhere. Still quid pro quo. They loosened the chains of money somewhat but didn’t yet dissolve them.

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    RBE — The Macro Framework

    Jacque Fresco and later Peter Joseph proposed the Resource-Based Economy as a scientific redesign of global society.

    Here, technology and data guide production and distribution according to human and ecological need, not profit.

    It’s the macro-level architecture of a sustainable civilization — the structural intelligence behind abundance.

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    NES — The Natural Flow

    The Natural Exchange System (NES) brings the heart of the gift economy together with the structure of the RBE.

    In NES, exchange doesn’t mean trade — it means flow.

    Nature itself is a vast exchange system:

    trees give oxygen and receive carbon dioxide, insects collect nectar and pollinate plants — yet no one keeps score.

    This is exchange without accounting, reciprocity without debt.

    NES mirrors that same principle through intelligent coordination: a world where resources and services move where they’re needed, guided by transparency and awareness rather than price or profit.

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    How NES Works — An Example from the World of Waking Up

    In the society portrayed in the novel Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity, everyone contributes according to what feels most natural and fulfilling for them.

    Someone who loves to cook opens a restaurant.

    Another enjoys the rhythm of conversation and service, so they take orders and deliver meals.

    No one in that community particularly enjoys cleaning tables or doing dishes — so those tasks are handled by robots and intelligent machines.

    NES is a system, like nature, where every part does its thing and is fulfilled in doing it.

    Thus, the reward is in the task itself — not in any external monetary lure, but in the joy of meaningful contribution.

    Everywhere, the same principle applies:

    • People do what brings them joy and meaning.

    • Technology quietly fills the gaps where human interest doesn’t reach.

    • What needs doing simply gets done.

    There are no wages, no hierarchy, and no unemployment — because the motivation isn’t survival or profit, it’s purpose.

    That is the essence of NES: a natural coordination between human passion and technological assistance, producing abundance through harmony, not hassle.

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    Trading vs. Exchange

    The difference between trading and exchange is subtle yet profound.

    Trading is conditional — an “if–then” relationship: I give if you give – quid pro quo. It is measured, recorded, and bound by the fear of scarcity. There’s always an expectation, an invisible balance sheet where value is compared, debts are created, and equality must be restored through reciprocal repayment.

    Exchange, in its natural sense, is something entirely different. It’s not calculated; it’s circulatory. In nature, all parts contribute to the whole without question — no one keeps track. It is a flow, not a deal. When humans live by natural exchange, giving and receiving become part of the same movement, and the joy lies not in what we get, but in the aliveness of participation itself.

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    The True Gift Economy

    If the Gift Economy is the heart,

    and the RBE is the brain,

    then the NES is the living organism where both unite — the true gift economy, not symbolic or experimental, but natural.

    No credits, no tokens, no trade — just conscious flow.

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    In Summary

    • Gift Economy – the feeling of giving and trust.

    • LETS / Eko/Time Banks – transitional models still based on accounting.

    • RBE – the framework for global coordinated abundance.

    • NES – the integration where nature’s effortless exchange becomes humanity’s way of life.

    They’re not competing ideas but evolutionary steps in remembering how to share — moving from measured trade to natural flow, from scarcity to trust, from economy to ecology.

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    Written by Harald Sandø, author of Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity,

    a novel exploring a future moneyless society guided by trust, collaboration, and natural exchange.

  • Only for the brave

    Only for the brave

    This book is dangerous.

    It questions everything we take for granted —

    and it might just wake you up.

    This book is only for the brave. Are you one of them…?

    If you’re brave enough, here you have it today and tomorrow(October 6.) only for $1.99.

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  • The Idiocracy of Our Time

    The Idiocracy of Our Time

    The United States just shut down parts of its government. Not because the farmers stopped farming. Not because the engineers forgot how to build. Not because the doctors ran out of knowledge.

    But because two groups of politicians couldn’t agree on numbers in a spreadsheet.

    750,000 people furloughed. Families in limbo. Services halted. The world’s “biggest economy” brought to its knees by idiotic accounting games.

    Money as Oxygen

    This is the Idiocracy of our time: we treat money as if it were oxygen. We act as if society cannot breathe without it. Yet money produces nothing. It grows no food, builds no homes, heals no bodies. It is only the token system we invented and forgot was fiction. Time to call it a day?

    History shows us that human societies have not always been shackled to money:

    • Indigenous cultures across the Americas and Australia sustained themselves for millennia through direct sharing of food, tools, and shelter — no coins, no ledgers.

    • Medieval villages in Europe often relied on collective effort and community support, where needs were met without currency.

    • Disaster relief today shows the same principle: when hurricanes, earthquakes, or floods strike, people don’t wait for budgets to be approved. Neighbors help neighbors, resources flow, and life continues.

    What if instead of shutting down when the tokens run out, we simply looked at what is real..?

    • Resources

    • Skills

    • Needs

    • Collaboration

    The things that actually make life work

    Imagine a world where monetary budgets don’t exist, but abundance does. Where we don’t ask, “Can we afford it?” but rather, “Do the resources exist, and does it serve life?”

    That’s not a fantasy. It’s the next step for humanity. Because as long as we play by the rules of monopoly money, we’ll keep watching governments collapse over nothing.

    Time to step out of the Idiocracy — and into a world that works for all

    We could create such a world if we really wanted to, as long as enough people become aware of the possibility. And that is exactly what the book,Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity, is about. Making people aware through story.

    Are you curious?

    If you want to glimpse what such a future might look like, step into the story of Waking Up. Follow Benjamin Michaels, a former billionaire who opens his eyes 100 years in his future in a world where money has been abandoned — where access, cooperation, and abundance have replaced scarcity and competition. No more fight over budgets. No more polarization. Humanity has realized we have to work together to keep living on this planet. Ben’s  journey is a window into what life could be like beyond the illusion of money and scarcity.

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  • Can We Change Climate Change? If So, How?

    Can We Change Climate Change? If So, How?


    Climate change is often portrayed as an unstoppable force — a tidal wave of destruction that humanity can only brace for. But the truth is, we are not powerless passengers. The real question isn’t just whether climate change is happening, but whether we can change it. And the answer is yes — though it requires changing more than our lightbulbs, or eating less meat. It demands a deep transformation of our systems, our mindset, and our values.

    Concrete Signs in Today’s World


    The evidence is already here, in the headlines and on our streets. In France recently, deadly floods swept across entire regions, leaving citizens openly blaming climate change and demanding urgent action from leaders. Wildfires have raged through Canada and Greece, fueled by record heat. The United States has also been hit hard: in January 2025, Southern California endured a series of devastating wildfires that burned over half a million acres, destroyed or damaged more than 18,000 structures, displaced over 200,000 people, and caused dozens of deaths. Scientists confirm that the extreme heat, drought, and winds that fueled these fires were made more likely by human-driven climate change. Only months later, heavy rains triggered flash floods and mudslides across California, especially in areas destabilized by previous wildfires. In earlier years, massive flooding from atmospheric rivers caused billions in damages and dozens of deaths. Meanwhile, Pakistan has suffered historic floods, displacing millions, and Southern Europe has endured repeated, deadly heatwaves. Africa and South America face worsening droughts that devastate crops and water supplies. These are not distant warnings. They are present realities that show how deeply climate change is reshaping our world.

    Systems Over Symptoms


    We’ve been told to recycle, drive less, or eat less meat. These actions matter, but they’re like a band-aid on a deep wound. The core drivers of climate change are systemic: fossil-fuel dependency, industrial agriculture, and an economic system that rewards endless consumption. To change climate change, we must change the very structures that fuel it. We have to make drastic changes, unless we want to go down with the planet itself. We simply must STOP. To save our planet — and our lives on it — we  have to stop. Stop the endless consumption. Stop burning fossil fuels. Stop producing meat in ways that destroy ecosystems. Stop. Stop. Stop. If we don’t stop it ourselves, the planet will stop it for us. And that will be ugly. We simply have to stop the culprit: The monetary system. But of course stopping today’s monetary system is impossible as we all depend on it for jobs and money… Read on if you’re curious about a possible solution.

    The Tools Are Already Here


    Solar panels, wind turbines, tidal power, hydrogen storage, regenerative farming, rewilding — the solutions already exist. What we lack is not technology, but the will to apply it at scale. The longer we delay, the more we lock ourselves into outdated systems. Imagine if the same urgency we put into weapons and wars were channeled into renewable grids and sustainable cities.

    How Certain Are We?


    Most scientists agree that todays climate change is primarily man-made, caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If that is the case, then we can change it — because what humanity caused, humanity can reverse. But even if science were wrong, and climate change is driven by forces beyond our control, the need for global collaboration would only grow stronger. If we are truly passengers on this ride, then at the very least we should work together, minimize harm, and prepare with dignity. Why add wars among ourselves to the challenge of facing a turbulent planet?

    Escaping the Growth Addiction


    Our global economy behaves like an addict: always craving more, never satisfied. Growth at all costs drives deforestation, pollution, and exploitation. Money becomes the drug, and the planet pays the price. Breaking this addiction means building systems that value life, collaboration, and resilience over profit.

    From Fear to Possibility


    Fear paralyzes; vision empowers. Instead of framing the climate crisis as the end of the world, we can see it as the birth of a new one. Cities designed like ecosystems. Energy drawn from sun, wind, and water. Communities thriving without waste or scarcity. The shift is not only possible — it is already beginning in pockets around the globe.

    Conclusion


    Can we change climate change? Yes — but only by changing ourselves, our priorities, and our systems. If we don’t stop this runaway train of destruction, nature will stop it for us, and the outcome will be catastrophic. But there is another way: a resource-based economy, where collaboration and abundance replace scarcity and profit. And where the economy is designed to take care of the planet, nature and the whole of humanity itself.

    In the book Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity, there is a picture drawn of a new world where this resource based economy has been adopted on the whole planet. Benjamin Michaels, the billionaire protagonist is shocked when he wakes up after 1oo years in cryonic sleep, only to find there is no more money in the world and all resources are optimized and shared…

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  • President Trunk Endorses “Cities of Light” After Reading Visionary Novel

    President Trunk Endorses “Cities of Light” After Reading Visionary Novel

    I was musing with ChatGPT about what might happen if my book Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity suddenly jumped from 6 sales to 600 million. Things escalated quickly… and somehow we ended up here:

    President Trump Endorses “Cities of Light” After Reading Visionary Novel

    Washington, D.C. — In what commentators are calling “the most unexpected ideological shift in modern history,” President Donald J. Trump has publicly endorsed Norwegian author Harald Neslein Sandø’s groundbreaking novel Waking Up and its vision of Cities of Light — sustainable, post-monetary communities designed to free humanity from debt and exploitation.

    Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump declared in his trademark style:

    “Look, folks… I’ve read a lot of books. The best books. People always tell me I don’t read, but I do — I read this one. Waking Up. Incredible. Really tremendous. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. It opened my eyes, okay? Opened my eyes. We don’t need all the debt, the fighting, the nonsense. We need Cities of Light. We’re gonna build them — and they’ll be beautiful, believe me. The best Cities. Everyone’s saying so.

    Money? Forget it. We’re moving past that. This is about people, about love, about the future. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. Harald’s a genius.”

    The announcement shocked political analysts, who have long considered Trump a staunch defender of capitalism. Social media instantly lit up with memes under the hashtag #TrumpEnlightenmentTilt, while even late-night hosts admitted they were “lost for words.”

    For Sandø, whose novel recently surpassed 600 million copies sold worldwide, the statement was both surreal and inevitable:

    “From six to six hundred million. No in between. The world has already woken up.”

    If you’re wondering what this is all about you can order the book here and find out…

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  • Humanity Is Waking Up – But What Does That Really Mean?

    Humanity Is Waking Up – But What Does That Really Mean?

    When I say “humanity is waking up”, it’s not just a hopeful slogan. It’s an observation, and perhaps even a prophecy. But waking up to what? And in what way?

    At first glance, it might not look like humanity is waking up at all. The news screams of wars, corruption, inequality, and ecological collapse. We seem to be racing faster and faster toward the abyss. And yet, beneath the noise, something else is stirring.

    Waking Up to the Fragility of Earth

    We are beginning to acknowledge that our planet is not an endless resource but a delicate web of life. Fires, floods, extinctions, and climate chaos force us to recognize that humanity is part of this web, not separate from it. In response, more people embrace renewable energy, regenerative farming, and circular economies. It’s slow, uneven, but real.

    Waking Up from the Illusion of Scarcity

    Money has long dictated who eats and who starves, who thrives and who suffers. But a growing awareness tells us that money itself is an invention—an artificial system of scarcity. The real wealth of the world is abundant: food, energy, creativity, love. Movements for sharing economies, cooperatives, and even resource-based visions show that alternatives are possible.

    Waking Up to Our Shared Humanity

    Borders, races, religions, and ideologies divide us only on the surface. More people are realizing that beneath those layers we are one family. The rise of movements for global justice, equality, and indigenous wisdom signals this deeper recognition, even as old systems of control cling tightly to their power.

    Waking Up Spiritually

    Most importantly, humanity is waking up to something deeper than politics or economics. We are beginning to remember who we really are: not isolated egos, but expressions of one consciousness. This awakening shows itself in the longing for connection, the spread of meditation and inner practices, the search for meaning beyond possessions.

    Spiritually, this awakening means:

    • Realizing that love and compassion are not luxuries, but the very fabric of life.
    • Seeing that the ego’s chase for power or security cannot bring peace.
    • Trusting a deeper intelligence—whether we call it God, Source, Spirit, or simply Life—that guides us when we listen.
    • Recognizing that our thoughts and choices shape reality, and that we are co-creators of the world to come.

    The Tension of Our Time

    To say “humanity is waking up” does not mean everyone suddenly becomes enlightened. It means more and more people are questioning the illusions, breaking free of fear, and daring to live differently. But as this happens, the old system pushes back. That’s why our time feels so turbulent—both abyss and awakening accelerate together.

    This is not failure. It is birth.

    A Call to Each of Us

    If humanity is waking up, it’s not an abstract idea—it’s a personal invitation. Each of us is part of this shift. We can choose to close our eyes, or to see clearly. To cling to separation, or to live in connection. To act from fear, or from love.

    The real question is not “Is humanity waking up?” but “Am I waking up—and how will I live that awakening?”

    A Mirror in Story

    This is also the journey at the heart of my novel Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity. In the book, Benjamin Michaels awakens in a future awakened society that has left money and fear behind, learning step by step what it means to live in connection, compassion, and trust. His shock, his doubts, and his eventual transformation mirror the path we are all walking now.

    Reading his story is not just entertainment—it’s a glimpse into what our collective awakening could look like, if we dare to imagine it and live it together.

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  • How Bad Is It, Really?

    How Bad Is It, Really?

    We go about our daily lives as if nothing is wrong. The sun is shining, sometimes it rains, and life goes on. Maybe a storm hits the news, a wildfire burns somewhere, or a flood takes a village—but then everything seems to return to normal. Shops are full, cars drive by, flights leave on time. So we ask: how bad is it, really?

    The Reality Beneath the Surface

    When we look closer, the picture changes.

    • Eroded Land: In the American Midwest, decades of industrial farming have stripped away rich topsoil. Heavy plowing and chemical fertilizers have left the land fragile, so fertile soil washes into rivers after heavy rains. Scientists warn that U.S. farmland is losing soil up to 10 times faster than nature can replenish it. In parts of Spain, desertification is advancing so fast that villages are being abandoned, orchards dry out, and the land turns to dust. And in the Amazon and Southeast Asia, clear-cutting vast areas of rainforest leaves bare earth that quickly erodes when the rains come. Once the trees are gone, the land often dries out completely—lush ecosystems collapsing into desert-like landscapes within years.

    • Ruined Rivers: The Colorado River once carved canyons and nourished ecosystems all the way to the sea. Today, it is drained to irrigate thirsty crops like alfalfa and cotton in the desert—fields planted because they are profitable, not sustainable. In many years, the river fails to reach the ocean at all. The Ganges River, sacred to millions, is choked with untreated sewage and factory runoff. Factories dump toxins because it is cheaper than cleaning their waste.

    • Vanishing Waters: The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, has been drained almost dry to irrigate cotton fields for global export. What remains is a toxic desert, scattered with rusting ships where fishing towns once thrived.

    • Poisoned Lands and People: In the Niger Delta, oil companies found it more profitable to let pipelines leak than to fix them. Vast swamps are now covered in oil slicks, rivers are poisoned, and entire communities are left with dead fisheries and unsafe drinking water.

    • Oceans and Reefs in Peril: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a swirling gyre of plastic waste twice the size of Texas—kills turtles, whales, seabirds, and fish. Microplastics are now found in human blood. Meanwhile, the Great Barrier Reef is bleaching again and again. Fossil fuels keep economies “growing,” but rising ocean temperatures are turning coral wonderlands into white graveyards.

    • Toxic Air: In Delhi, the air sometimes rises to 20 times above safe levels. Children grow up with reduced lung capacity just from breathing.

    These are not isolated accidents. They are signs of systemic breakdown.

    Why Is It Like This?

    The logic is tragically simple.

    • Profit over Planet: The Colorado is drained not by mistake, but because crops for export bring in money. The Ganges is polluted because cleaning up waste eats into profit margins. Much easier and cheaper to dump it into the Ganges. The Aral Sea disappeared so cotton could be sold worldwide. Oil continues to pour into the Niger Delta because safety measures cost more than they earn. Coral reefs bleach because burning coal and oil remains profitable, heating the planet and the oceans.

    Profit over People: While rivers dry and forests fall, millions of children go to bed hungry every night. In parts of Africa, families struggle to find enough food, while at the same time billions of dollars’ worth of grain are fed to livestock or wasted to keep prices stable. Extreme inequality means that a tiny fraction of humanity lives in obscene luxury while entire communities lack clean water, education, and basic healthcare. The system is designed to serve profit first, even when it means children starve while supermarket shelves in wealthy countries overflow.

    • Growth at Any Cost: Governments measure success in GDP, not in clean rivers or healthy soil. Every factory, every shipment, every barrel of oil counts as “growth,” even when it subtracts from life itself. We are locked in this mindset. We have to make money. At any cost, it seems.

    • Externalizing the Costs: Pollution is free. Companies dump waste and pocket the gains, while nature and communities pay the price.

    • Consumer Culture: Our throwaway economy thrives on constant demand for more—fast fashion, gadgets, cars, and single-use plastic. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one inevitable result of this model.

    All of these examples—rivers, seas, reefs, people, air and land—are chapters of the same story: a system that rewards taking without giving back. A system that liquidates the Earth for short-term profit.

    Is There Any Hope?

    After seeing this, it is natural to ask: is there any solution? Or is it already too late?

    What if… it isn’t?

    What if humanity suddenly decided that enough is enough? That we will no longer sacrifice the living Earth and poor people for profit? What if we chose, together, to protect and optimize this planet so that humans, animals, and all of nature could thrive here—side by side, in balance?

    What if the same intelligence, creativity, and technology that once exploited the Earth were redirected to heal it?

    This is not fantasy. It is a choice. Humanity could decide tomorrow to change course. But this would mean a radical change. Ending the root cause of all of this: 

    The Monetary System. 

    But, but, how can we? We need it to live! What about jobs and income and everything?? Understandable arguments.

    But there is a way. We could end the monetary system and still thrive on planet earth. We could live without money and trading and instead focus on healing the planet and ourselves in the process. We could in fact, with the technology we have available today, build a paradise on Planet Earth. A world that works for all living beings.

    And that is exactly what has happened in Waking Up. When billionaire Benjamin Michaels wakes up in a world without money and trading, he is at first shocked, desperate, and lost. But then he realizes: this was the best decision humanity ever made. To stop the destruction. To stop chasing endless profit. To build a society where people and planet thrive together.

    The book is fiction. But the question is not. 

    Would you like to be inspired and get lost in how this future world would actually feel like to live in? If so, I invite you to read the book. You can get it here:

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  • From Terminator to Teammate

    From Terminator to Teammate

    🤖 From HAL to GAI: How Our View of Artificial Intelligence Has Evolved And How My Fiction Is Becoming Reality.

    Dangerous Intelligence

    When I was born in 1966, the word artificial intelligence didn’t mean much to most people. If it meant anything at all, it probably conjured up an image of HAL 9000 — the calm but menacing voice from 2001: A Space Odyssey. A machine that turned on its creators. It wasn’t just intelligent; it was dangerous.

    By the 1980s, that fear had deepened. Skynet in The Terminator presented AI as the ultimate threat: cold, self-aware, and bent on eradicating humanity. Later, in the late ’90s, The Matrix solidified the narrative: AI had taken over, and we were its unaware prisoners.

    These stories reflected a collective anxiety:

    What if we create something smarter than us… and it turns against us?

    For decades, AI was the villain — a symbol of what happens when human ambition outpaces wisdom.

    A Shift Begins

    When I started writing my novel Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity in 2011, AI was beginning to appear in real-world discussions — but only in speculative circles. It wasn’t on the evening news, and it certainly wasn’t writing your emails or helping you brainstorm articles.

    At that point, AI wasn’t part of my story.

    But as the novel evolved — a vision of a post-monetary, cooperative, resource-based society — I felt something was missing. A world like that would need global coordination. But not from a government. Not from a corporation. From something… wiser. Non-biased. Helpful. Humble.

    That’s when it hit me:

    There should be a Global Artificial Intelligence.
    But not a tyrant — a guide.
    A mirror.
    A servant of humanity, not its master.

    And so, the GAI was born:
    A benevolent, decentralized, planetary AI that listens before it acts.
    That offers wisdom, not control.
    That helps humanity harmonize, not compete.
    (Unless, of course, there’s a game.)

    At the time, this felt like speculative fiction.

    But Then the Future Showed Up

    Fast-forward to the mid-2020s — and suddenly, AI is everywhere.

    It writes. It speaks. It recommends. It learns.
    It’s still far from global, but it’s undeniably intelligent — and it’s learning at a speed never before seen.

    And here’s the twist:

    People are not only afraid of it.
    They’re curious.
    They’re hopeful.
    They’re even asking:

    What if AI could help us?

    The shift is astounding
    • In 1974, people said: “Global AI? That’s impossible.”
    • In 1984: “If it exists, it’ll control us.”
    • In 2024: “If it’s transparent and benevolent… maybe it could help heal the world.”

    The world has caught up to my fiction.
    Or maybe — fiction helped shape the new imagination.

    Intelligence Guided by Love

    The GAI in Waking Up isn’t a solution to all problems.
    It’s a tool — a conscious extension of humanity’s highest values.
    It doesn’t dominate. It collaborates.
    It doesn’t replace human wisdom. It amplifies it.

    And perhaps that’s the core of the shift we’re seeing today:

    We’re learning that intelligence without love is dangerous.
    But intelligence guided by love is divine.

    This, to me, is the next great leap — not just in technology, but in consciousness.

    📘 Want to See How It All Comes Together?

    If you want to explore a future where humanity transcends conflict, where AI becomes a trusted ally, and where cooperation replaces competition — I invite you to read Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity.

    It’s not just fiction anymore.
    It’s a glimpse of what’s possible — and maybe even inevitable. Humanity is waking up…

    👉 Order your copy today here.

    We dreamed of AI.
    Now it’s dreaming with us.
    The question is — what shall we dream next?

    Get inspired when you read the book…