Category: Nature

  • The Meta‑Crisis — And the World That Could Come After

    The Meta‑Crisis — And the World That Could Come After

    We hear the word crisis so often that it has almost lost its meaning.

    Climate crisis. Economic crisis. Political crisis. Mental‑health crisis. Energy crisis. Trust crisis.

    But what we are actually facing is something deeper and bigger — a meta‑crisis.

    A meta‑crisis is not one problem. It is a web of problems, all feeding each other. Climate breakdown accelerates economic instability. Economic insecurity fuels political polarization. Polarization erodes trust. Loss of trust paralyzes collective action — which in turn worsens climate breakdown.

    Each crisis amplifies the others.

    This is why so many solutions feel ineffective. We keep treating symptoms in isolation, while the underlying system continues to generate the same outcomes.

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    A System Under Strain

    Our global system was built for a world that no longer exists.

    It assumes endless growth on a finite planet.

    It rewards competition over cooperation.

    It measures success in money rather than wellbeing.

    For a long time, this system appeared to work. Supermarkets were full. Technology advanced. Comfort increased — for some.

    But the costs were externalized.

    Onto other people.

    Onto future generations.

    Onto nature itself.

    Now the bill is coming due.

    The meta‑crisis is not an accident. It is the predictable result of a system designed without regard for ecological limits, psychological health, or long‑term resilience.

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    A Question We Rarely Ask

    Most discussions stop here — with warnings, statistics, and projections of collapse.

    But there is another question worth asking:

    What if humanity acted in time?

    What if we recognized the pattern early enough?

    What if cooperation replaced competition as our default?

    What if technology was used to restore nature and free humans — not to extract more from them?

    What if we acknowledged something even more uncomfortable:

    That the problem was never a lack of solutions — but a lack of alignment.

    Because the truth is this:

    We already have the tools.

    We already have the science.

    We already have the productive capacity to meet everyone’s basic needs.

    We know how to generate abundant renewable energy.

    We know how to automate dangerous and repetitive labor.

    We know how to design cities around people instead of profit.

    We know how to produce more than enough food — sustainably.

    What stands in the way is not technology.

    It is the system we organize ourselves by.

    A system that requires scarcity to function.

    A system that turns necessities into commodities.

    A system that measures success in money rather than human and ecological wellbeing.

    Some visionary projects — such as those exploring resource‑based economies, like The Venus Project — have long argued that a resilient society would require something radical:

    Not reforming the monetary system — but replacing it.

    In such a model, resources are treated as the shared inheritance of humanity.

    Production is guided by real needs and ecological limits, not profit.

    Technology becomes a tool for coordination, not control.

    This is not science fiction.

    It is a different set of rules applied to capabilities we already possess.

    So the real question becomes:

    If the solutions exist — what would the future look like if we actually used them?

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    A Thought Experiment

    So what would the world actually look like if we implemented all of this?

    If we treated the planet’s resources as a shared inheritance.

    If production was guided by real human needs and ecological limits.

    If a global, coordinated, resource-based economy replaced the monetary system.

    If technology was used to liberate time and creativity, not monetize it.

    What would daily life feel like?

    How would cities function?

    What would people do with their lives when survival was no longer the primary concern?

    One way to explore that question is through story.

    That is exactly what Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity does — through the eyes of Benjamin Michaels.

    Benjamin comes from our world, at its peak – 2015.

    He was not a rebel or an outsider.

    He was a billionaire — someone who had mastered the old system. But suffered from incurable cancer. He chooses cryogenic preservation of his body in the hopes of waking up again to being healed and continue expanding his empire.

    When he wakes up one hundred years into the future, he is shocked to learn about the new moneyless world and expects collapse, chaos, or authoritarian control — the futures our imagination keeps returning to.

    Instead, he finds something else entirely.

    A world where people are thriving.

    A world where basic needs and wants are guaranteed.

    A world where cities are designed around human wellbeing and ecological harmony.

    A world where cooperation is not idealism, but infrastructure.

    Benjamin doesn’t just hear about this world.

    He walks through it.

    Questions it.

    Resists it and almost helps destroying it.

    But slowly begins to understand how humanity stepped back from the brink and started prospering.

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    Not Utopia — But Maturity

    This future is not perfect.

    Nature still has momentum.

    Old damage still needs healing.

    Human emotions are still human.

    But the underlying rules have changed.

    Fear is no longer the operating system.

    Scarcity is no longer artificially enforced.

    Survival is no longer the primary driver of human behavior.

    The story does not ask us to believe that humans became saints.

    It asks a simpler question:

    What happens when humanity grows up?

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    Why Stories Matter

    Facts inform.

    Stories transform.

    We already know the data.

    We already know the risks.

    What we lack is a shared image of a future worth moving toward.

    That is what the novel,Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity explores — not as prediction, but as possibility.

    Not as ideology, but as a thought experiment and inspiration grounded in existing technology, systems thinking, and human values.

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    The Quiet Invitation

    The meta‑crisis is real.

    But collapse is not the only ending available.

    Another path exists — one that does not begin with revolution or force, but with understanding, imagination, and cooperation.

    The question is not whether such a future is guaranteed.

    The question is whether we dare to imagine it — and then start acting as if it were possible.

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    If this article resonates, please share it.

    Because the more people start to imagine this future the bigger chance we have of actually getting there.

    And if you want to explore one possible answer to the meta‑crisis through story rather than theory, Waking Up is available now.

  • Climate Change Is the Symptom — Not the Disease

    Climate Change Is the Symptom — Not the Disease

    In the UK this week, spring flowers were reported blooming in January.

    Not in a greenhouse.
    Not as a freak anecdote.
    But across regions — measured, recorded, and described as part of a trend.

    The same reports note that the UK has just experienced its warmest years since measurements began in 1884.

    This is not speculation.
    It is observation.

    Plants do not follow politics. They respond to temperature. When ecosystems start behaving out of season, it tells us something fundamental has shifted.

    This is climate change in its early, quiet form.
    And if left unchecked, it does not stop here.

    From Climate Change to Possible Collapse

    Climate change is not just about warmer weather or uncomfortable summers.

    Left unresolved, it can lead to global ecological collapse — not the end of the planet, but the breakdown of the living systems that support food, water, stability, and human cooperation.

    This is the point where climate change stops being an environmental issue and becomes a civilizational one.

    Nature stops buffering our mistakes.
    Ecosystems lose resilience.
    And societies built on constant growth and consumption begin to strain and fracture.

    The Real Cause

    At the root of this lies one dominant driver:

    systemic pollution.

    The largest source of pollution is not individual behavior.
    Not culture.
    Not human nature.

    It is the economic system itself — a system that requires endless extraction, growth, consumption and combustion in order to function.

    A Measure of Success?

    As long as success is measured in money, damage that does not appear on balance sheets becomes invisible.

    When profit depends on extraction, extraction continues.
    When growth is mandatory, limits are ignored.

    Burning fossil fuels is not an accident of this system.
    It is a requirement of it.

    No offset, no efficiency gain, no future technology can change that physical reality while the underlying incentive structure remains the same.

    The system is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

    A Precedent We Forget: The Ozone Layer

    We have faced a planetary threat like this before.

    In the late 20th century, scientists discovered that human‑made chemicals — CFCs — were thinning the ozone layer. The result was direct and measurable harm: more ultraviolet radiation reached the surface, increasing the risk of skin cancer, cataracts, and damage to ecosystems.

    The response was decisive.

    CFCs were identified as the cause and phased out globally through the Montreal Protocol. Not adapted to. Not offset. Stopped.

    And once the cause was removed, the ozone layer began to recover.

    This matters because it proves something essential:

    When humanity identifies a root cause and removes it, planetary systems heal.

    The difference today is not physics. It is scale.

    CFCs were a side branch of the economy.
    Fossil fuels are the cornerstone of the entire monetary system.

    That is why climate change has been harder to confront — not because the solution is unclear, but because it challenges the very system that runs our world.

    Can We Stop It at All?

    This is the question people are often afraid to ask:

    Can we actually stop this — not slow it, not manage it, but stop the collapse trajectory altogether?

    The honest answer is:

    Yes.

    But only if we are willing to stop absolutely all pollution.

    Not symbolic reductions.
    Not offsets.
    Not promises for later.

    All pollution.

    And that immediately reveals the deeper truth.

    Stopping all pollution means stepping beyond an economy that depends on pollution to survive.

    It means letting go of a system built on endless competition, extraction, consumption and growth — and replacing it with one aligned with life.

    This is not a technical leap.
    It is a systemic one.

    Which means we have to not only change one part of the economy like we did to fix the ozone layer, we have to change THE WHOLE ECONOMIC SYSTEM ITSELF. 

    An Awakening — Not a Dystopia

    In the novel Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity, the future is not a dystopia where climate change ran rampant and humanity collapsed into endless struggle.

    It is the opposite.

    At a certain point in future history, humanity experienced an awakening.

    Not a mystical event — but a moment of collective clarity.

    Humanity stopped asking how to dominate, outcompete, or survive at someone else’s expense.

    And started asking a radically simple question instead:

    Why not just be friends?

    Why fight over resources on a shared planet?
    Why organize society around fear, scarcity, and competition?

    Why not simply collaborate — and create the best possible world for all life?

    That shift changed everything.

    Once the incentive to compete and extract was removed, pollution stopped at the source.

    Climate change no longer dominate daily life.

    Not because it was ignored — but because its cause was removed.

    In Waking Up, the future is calmer.
    More humane.
    More cooperative.

    Climate change is not the story.

    It is what stopped being the story once humanity chose to grow up.

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    Through the eyes of Benjamin Michaels, you are invited to step into that future — not as fantasy, but as a plausible consequence of choices we could still make. It is not too late.

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  • Culture vs. Money — What Came First?

    Culture vs. Money — What Came First?

    Watching Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted travel through Galicia Spain, harvesting percebes from wave-beaten rocks, bidding on fish at early-morning auctions, and cooking food rooted deeply in place, a simple question naturally arises:

    Would people still do all this if there were no money?

    It’s a fair question — and also a revealing one.

    Because what we are actually watching in Galicia is not an economy.

    We are watching a culture.

    Culture came first

    Fishing cultures, farming cultures, herding cultures, food cultures, craft cultures — all of them existed long before the modern monetary system. People did not begin fishing because of auctions. They did not start making cheese because of profit margins. They did these things because:

    • it was who they were

    • it was how knowledge was passed down

    • it created belonging and pride

    • it connected them to land, sea, and community

    • it gave meaning to daily life

    • it gave them food on the table

    Money arrived later. Much later. And when it arrived, it wrapped itself around these activities as a coordination layer — not as their source.

    Money coordinate — it does not motivate

    We often confuse coordination with motivation.

    Auctions, prices, bids, and markets help coordinate distribution under scarcity. They do not explain why people go out into dangerous seas, master difficult skills, or continue traditions that take decades to learn.

    Those motivations are older and deeper:

    • identity

    • mastery

    • contribution

    • respect

    • continuity

    • love of the craft

    Remove money, and the need for coordination remains — but the reasons for doing the work do not disappear.

    What disappears without money — and what doesn’t

    What disappears:

    • artificial scarcity

    • speculative bidding

    • over-extraction for profit

    • middlemen extracting value

    • pressure to work dangerously because of debt

    What remains:

    • fishing

    • cheesemaking

    • farming

    • cooking

    • skill and pride

    • reputation based on excellence

    • rituals, festivals, and traditions

    In fact, many cultures would function better without monetary pressure distorting them.

    Coordination without coercion

    In a post-monetary world, coordination would be based on:

    • real needs instead of price signals

    • logistics instead of competition

    • reputation instead of wealth

    • cooperation instead of bidding wars

    People would still want good food, beautiful craft, and skilled work. They just wouldn’t need financial scarcity to decide who deserves access.

    Play survives economics

    Interestingly, some old systems might even survive — but as play.

    Mock auctions, ritualized bidding, historical reenactments, and LARP(Live Acton Role Playing)-like traditions could remain because humans enjoy drama, ritual, and performance. The difference is simple but profound:

    No one’s survival would depend on winning the game.

    The deeper misunderstanding

    The hardest idea for many people to release is the belief that:

    “Without money, nobody would do the work.”

    But this is contradicted every day by:

    • parenting

    • art

    • volunteering

    • caregiving

    • community building

    • cultural preservation

    Humans are not motivated primarily by money.

    We are motivated by meaning.

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    Pono — An Example of the Future That Already Exists

    Watching Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted again. In Hawaii this time there are several quiet moments that say more about humanity’s future than a thousand economic theories. Not because Hawaii is unique or superior — but because it preserves something that exists everywhere, once you know how to see it.

    Ramsay learns to make a knife from a Hawaiian knife smith. No factory. No production line. Just hands, fire, steel, patience — and pride in the craft.

    Earlier, he is introduced to pono by a local chef. Hawaiian culture becomes the lens here — not as an exception, but as a clear example of something fundamentally human. He visits coffee farms where every single bean is hand-picked — not because it is efficient in monetary terms, but because care, respect, and right relationship matter.

    That moment already carries the essence of pono.

    Then the thought arises naturally:

    If this knife smith were not paid for his knives, would he still make them?

    Anyone paying attention already knows the answer.

    Yes.

    Craft does not originate in money

    People like this knife smith do not exist because of money. They exist because of:

    • curiosity

    • mastery

    • identity

    • interest

    • the simple joy of doing something well

    Money comes later, as a translation layer — a blunt instrument used to move objects through a system that no longer trusts relationships.

    Take money away, and the craft does not disappear.

    What changes is how the craft flows.

    Without money, distribution becomes personal

    If the knife smith were not selling knives to an anonymous market, he would still make them — but he would make them for someone.

    A fisherman.

    A cook.

    A farmer.

    A neighbor.

    Each knife would have a face attached to it.

    Each knife would have a story.

    The question would no longer be:

    What can I get for this?

    It would become:

    Who is this for, and what do they need?

    That is not sentimentality.

    It is precision.

    Fewer knives, perhaps — but each one more exact, more fitting, more meaningful.

    Pono as systems intelligence

    In Hawaiian culture, pono means balance, right relationship, and corrective harmony — not moral purity or rule-following.

    The hand-picked coffee beans matter here. Not as a luxury product, but as a signal: how something is done matters as much as what is produced.

    An action is pono if it restores balance:

    • between people

    • between people and land

    • between effort and need

    The traditional Hawaiian ahupuaʻa system worked this way. Resources were not owned, priced, or extracted for growth. They were stewarded as flows — from mountain to sea — with the understanding that excess in one place meant harm elsewhere.

    That is not nostalgia.

    That is systems intelligence.

    Culture precedes money — and survives without it

    Fishing, farming, cooking, building, teaching, caring.

    These activities existed long before money — and they continue today wherever culture is allowed to breathe.

    This quietly answers the question critics always ask:

    “But why would people do anything without money?”

    Because they already do.

    You just have to stop filtering reality through price tags.

    Money did not create meaning.

    It replaced relationship with abstraction.

    Culture outlives systems

    Economic systems rise and fall.

    Cultures endure.

    Galician fishers will still fish.

    Not because of auctions.

    But because it is who they are.

    And once that is truly understood, the idea of a good life without money stops sounding radical — and starts  sounding natural and deeply human.

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    If this way of thinking resonates, the novel Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity explores what happens when humanity organizes around cooperation, culture, and care instead of money — and reveals that the future we imagine may already be quietly alive among us. Dive into the story through Benjamin Michaels, the lost billionaire waking up in a future like this.

  • Maybe There Is Still Hope…?

    Maybe There Is Still Hope…?

    It’s hard to believe in human nature these days.

    Countries invade each other. Wars rage. Civilians suffer. Ecological warnings grow louder. Artificial intelligence accelerates faster than our ethics. Even the future itself feels fragile — as if it could tip in the wrong direction at any moment.

    More and more people quietly ask the same question:

    Will humanity even survive?

    And if we do — will it be worth surviving?

    In this climate, hope can feel naïve. Trust can feel irresponsible. Believing in a positive future can seem almost delusional — like wishful thinking in the face of overwhelming evidence.

    And yet.

    Maybe there is still hope anyway.

    Not the loud optimism that pretends everything will be fine. But a quieter, more grounded hope — one that exists despite fear, not because fear is absent.

    The Fear of the Future

    We are living inside a collective anxiety about what comes next.

    Climate collapse. Political extremism. Technological power without wisdom. Economic systems that demand endless growth on a finite planet. It’s no wonder so many people feel that humanity is on borrowed time.

    From this perspective, believing that we can survive — let alone create a better world — sounds naïve.

    But maybe that’s the wrong conclusion.

    Because fear has a way of shrinking our imagination. It convinces us that what we see now is all that’s possible. That conflict is inevitable. That cooperation is fragile. That humans, when pushed, will always choose destruction over care.

    History tells a more complicated story.

    Yes, we are capable of immense harm.

    But we are also capable of extraordinary adaptation — especially when old systems break down. Maybe that is even the core feature of human nature? Adaptation? Because, if it is something humanity has done over millennia it is this, adapt.

    Naivety Is Not Weakness — It Is Strength

    But today we’re taught that trusting others in dangerous times is foolish. That skepticism equals intelligence. That cynicism is realism.

    But cynicism is easy.

    Distrust is easy.

    Closing your heart when the future feels threatening is the most understandable reaction in the world.

    What’s hard — and therefore strong — is to stay open while fully aware of the risks.

    The person who dares to trust in dire times is not ignorant.

    They are courageous.

    That kind of naivety is not blindness. It’s a conscious choice to refuse fear as a governing principle. It’s choosing connection over armor. Imagination over resignation.

    Anyone can assume the worst.

    It takes strength to believe something better is possible — and to live as if that belief matters.

    Why Literature Still Matters

    Positive literature doesn’t stop wars.

    It doesn’t dismantle failing systems overnight.

    It doesn’t save the world by itself.

    But it does something quieter — and more essential.

    It keeps the inner flame alive.

    Stories, novels, and reflections remind us who we are beneath conditioning and trauma. They stretch our sense of what’s possible. They keep the future from collapsing into inevitability.

    A single book won’t change the world.

    But books change people.

    And people — slowly, unevenly, imperfectly — change the world.

    Even cheering each other up matters. It’s not trivial. It’s resistance against despair. It’s a refusal to let fear become the final authority.

    Imagining a World That Works

    This is where the novel, Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity, begins.

    Not with the assumption that humanity is doomed — but with the question:

    What if we survive?

    And what if, after everything we’ve been through, we finally grow up as a species?

    The story follows a contemporary man who wakes up into a future where humanity has grown up and moved beyond money, war, and fear-driven systems — not because humans became perfect, but because they were forced to face the consequences of the old world and chose differently.

    It’s a work of speculative fiction — but also an act of trust.

    A trust that humans are capable of learning.

    A trust that cooperation can replace domination.

    A trust that naivety, in the deepest sense, might be our greatest strength.

    Keeping the Door Open

    Maybe hope doesn’t arrive as a solution.

    Maybe it arrives as a story that refuses to give up on us.

    Or a sentence that lands at the right moment.

    Or the quiet realization that believing in a positive future is not weakness — it’s an act of courage.

    If nothing else, literature keeps the door open.

    So that if humanity does make it through —

    the light is still on.

  • What System Comes After the Monetary System?

    What System Comes After the Monetary System?

    For centuries, the monetary system has been treated as inevitable.

    Not perfect, not fair, not even particularly rational — but unavoidable.

    Every serious discussion about climate change, inequality, war, sustainability, or wellbeing eventually reaches the same unspoken conclusion:

    We are sorry, but we have to continue with the system we have.

    The question that is almost never asked — or answered — is the most fundamental one:

    What system comes after the monetary system?

    Because, clearly, we need a change.

    But to answer that, we need to stop arguing inside the current framework and instead look at systems themselves: how they arise, how they function, and how they evolve.

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    Three systems, clearly distinguished

    Humanity currently operates at the intersection of three fundamentally different systems. Understanding their nature is the key to understanding what comes next.

    1. The Monetary system — an artificial system

    The monetary system is not natural.

    It is a symbolic coordination system invented by humans.

    Its defining characteristics are:

    • money as a proxy for value

    • prices as signals

    • growth as success

    • scarcity(with abundance for a few) as a requirement

    • competition as a driver

    It does not measure wellbeing, ecological health, or long-term balance.

    It measures monetary activity. 

    This is the one thing it does very well.

    That does not make it evil — but it does make it blind.

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    2. The Planetary system — a natural system

    The Planetary system is the opposite.

    It is Earth’s biophysical reality:

    • ecosystems

    • climate

    • soil

    • oceans

    • biodiversity

    • feedback loops

    It operates without money, ownership, prices, or growth imperatives.

    Its defining features are:

    • balance

    • regeneration

    • circular flows

    • natural limits

    • real, physical feedback

    The planetary system does not negotiate.

    It responds.

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    3. The Humanitary system — a natural system with humans consciously included

    The Humanitary system represents a qualitative shift.

    It is also a natural system, but one where humans no longer act as an external, extractive force. Instead, human activity becomes consciously integrated with planetary reality.

    In this system:

    • wellbeing replaces profit as the primary measure

    • contribution replaces competition

    • access and stewardship replaces ownership

    • regeneration replaces extraction

    This is not ideology.

    It is systems alignment.

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    The key shift: the ecosystem becomes the economic system

    Today, the word ecosystem almost exclusively refers to ecological systems.

    In the Humanitary system, the meaning expands:

    The ecosystem becomes the economic system.

    Not metaphorically.

    Literally.

    Human resource flows begin to behave like natural ecosystems:

    • resources circulate like nutrients

    • waste becomes input

    • diversity creates resilience

    • balance replaces growth

    • feedback is immediate and real

    The economy stops being an abstract overlay and starts behaving like a living system.

    Once this is seen, it becomes difficult to unsee.

    The next system will not be communism, socialism or capitalism. It won’t even be the monetary system.

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    The Natural Exchange System (NES)

    If the ecosystem is the economic system, how does exchange actually work?

    This is where the Natural Exchange System (NES) comes in.

    NES is neither a market nor a centrally planned economy.

    It is applied ecology.

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    Exchange without trade

    One of the deepest assumptions of the monetary system is that exchange requires trade — that value must be priced, negotiated, balanced, or repaid.

    Nature shows us otherwise.

    In a natural ecosystem:

    • nothing is traded

    • nothing is paid back

    • nothing is accounted

    • nothing is owed

    Yet everything that needs to happen, happens.

    Plants produce oxygen without expecting carbon dioxide in return. 

    Animals and humans already do the same only opposite. Breathing in oxygen and out CO2.

    Bees pollinate without invoices.

    Trees share nutrients through fungal networks without bookkeeping.

    Predators regulate populations without moral judgment.

    Exchange exists — but not as transaction.

    Not as trade.

    It exists as participation.

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    NES as human participation in a living system

    The Natural Exchange System follows the same principle.

    In NES:

    • humans contribute based on interest, ability, curiosity, and context

    • fulfillment comes from the activity itself, not from reward

    • resources flow according to real needs, not purchasing power

    Technology help where it is needed

    • coordination emerges from awareness, not accounting

    People do what they are naturally drawn to do —

    because doing it is meaningful, satisfying, or joyful.

    This is not hypothetical.

    It already happens wherever money is absent:

    • parenting

    • caregiving

    • art

    • open-source software

    • community help

    • volunteering

    • emergency response

    NES simply removes the artificial constraints that prevent this logic from scaling.

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    No accounting needed

    Accounting exists to manage scarcity, distrust, and misalignment.

    In a functioning ecosystem:

    • scarcity is physical, not artificial

    • trust is implicit in interdependence

    • alignment is enforced by feedback, not punishment

    In NES:

    • resource availability is sensed directly

    • needs are visible, not hidden behind prices

    • overuse is corrected by real-world signals

    • contribution is self-regulating, not coerced

    Just as no forest needs a ledger,

    a mature human ecosystem does not require accounts, balances, or reciprocal payment.

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    Motivation without reward

    A common concern is: “Why would anyone do anything?”

    Nature answers this clearly.

    Species act because:

    • it is their nature

    • it sustains the system they depend on

    • it feels right within their role

    Humans are no different — when freed from survival anxiety and artificial scarcity.

    In NES:

    • work is not forced

    • contribution is not moralized

    • rest is not punished

    • creativity is not secondary

    People choose what they contribute —

    and are fulfilled by the contribution itself, not by compensation.

    That fulfillment is the signal.

    The ecosystem responds accordingly.

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    Exchange as flow

    The core shift is simple:

    • Monetary system → exchange as transaction and trade

    • Natural Exchange System → exchange as flow

    Nothing is traded.

    Nothing is paid back.

    Everything moves.

    Resources circulate like nutrients.

    Skills circulate like energy.

    Care circulates like water.

    Once exchange is understood this way, the question is no longer

    “How do we replace money?”

    but rather

    “Why did we ever need it in the first place?”

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    A system of systems

    The Humanitary world is not a single mechanism.

    It is an interconnected system of systems, all behaving ecosystem-like:

    • Resource systems — food, energy, materials

    • Information systems — sensing, feedback, coordination

    • Social systems — care, creativity, contribution

    • Governance systems — councils, transparency, resonance

    Each system:

    • adapts locally

    • cooperates globally

    • responds to real-world signals

    No growth mandate.

    No artificial scarcity.

    No central authority.

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    Why the monetary system cannot evolve into this

    The monetary system cannot simply be “fixed” into an ecosystem because it violates ecosystem logic at its core:

    • it rewards accumulation

    • it requires scarcity

    • it externalizes damage

    • it measures symbols instead of reality

    In nature, any subsystem that behaves this way is eventually corrected.

    What we are witnessing today — ecological breakdown, social stress, political fragmentation — is not a failure of humanity.

    It is a system mismatch.

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    What comes after the monetary system

    The answer is not another ideology.

    It is not socialism, communism, or a greener version of capitalism.

    What comes after the monetary system is a living system — one that behaves like nature itself.

    A Humanitary system, where the ecosystem is the economic system, and exchange follows natural laws rather than artificial symbols.

    When that happens, humans stop being a disruptive force on Earth —

    and become a regenerative one.

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    If this resonates and you would like to read an inspirational story about a contemporary man who wakes up in a world like this, the novel Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity is for you.

  • The Quiet Revolution

    The Quiet Revolution

    Inspired by Buckminster Fuller

    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

    — Buckminster Fuller

    Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was an American architect, inventor, systems thinker, and futurist who devoted his life to one central question: how humanity could live well on Earth without destroying its life‑support systems. He was not a politician, economist, or activist in the usual sense. He approached global problems as design challenges.

    Revolutions are usually imagined as loud events.

    Crowds in the streets. Raised fists. Collapsing statues.

    One side winning, another losing.

    But the most profound changes in human history have rarely arrived that way.

    They arrived quietly

    They began when people stopped believing the old story — not because they were forced to, but because something inside them simply said: this no longer makes sense.

    While the world today appears increasingly loud, polarized, and frantic, a different kind of transformation is unfolding beneath the surface. It does not announce itself. It does not trend. It does not demand allegiance.

    It spreads calmly, person by person.

    This is the quiet revolution.

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    When Systems Fade Instead of Falling

    History reveals a recurring pattern: systems do not disappear when they are attacked. They disappear when they are outgrown.

    Absolute monarchy did not end because kings were stormed everywhere at once. Across Europe, royal authority slowly became symbolic as constitutions, parliaments, and civic institutions made divine rule unnecessary. Power migrated away from bloodlines toward shared governance — quietly.

    Slavery did not collapse from rebellion alone. Long before its legal abolition, it was becoming morally indefensible and economically inefficient. Public consciousness shifted through writing, debate, and refusal. The institution withered as society outgrew it.

    The Soviet Union did not fall because it was militarily defeated. It collapsed because people quietly stopped believing in it. By the time the flags came down, the system was already hollow.

    Even the digital revolution arrived without confrontation. Email did not overthrow postal services. Messaging apps did not protest landlines. They simply worked better. People migrated — and old infrastructures faded into the background.

    Again and again, history tells the same story:

    systems end not through conflict, but through obsolescence.

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    Buckminster Fuller’s Radical Insight

    This pattern was deeply understood by Buckminster Fuller.

    He was not a politician or activist in the conventional sense, but an architect, inventor, and systems thinker who approached humanity’s problems as design challenges rather than moral failures.

    His central question was disarmingly simple:

    How can humanity live well on Earth without destroying the systems that support life?

    Fuller believed that humanity already possessed the scientific knowledge and technological capacity to provide a high quality of life for everyone on the planet. The obstacle, in his view, was not human nature — but obsolete systems designed for scarcity, competition, and inefficiency.

    His guiding principle was doing more with less: intelligent design that increases human well-being while reducing material and ecological cost.

    From this came his most misunderstood idea:

    You do not change the world by fighting the existing reality.

    You change it by building something better.

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    Obsolescence Is Gentle

    The brilliance of this insight lies in its softness.

    You don’t need to destroy the old system.

    You don’t need to convince everyone.

    You don’t need to force compliance.

    You simply build a model that works better.

    When a new system meets real needs more effectively — materially, socially, emotionally — people move toward it naturally. Not through collapse, but through migration. Not through revolution, but through relevance.

    No one protested the fax machine.

    No one rioted against cassette tapes.

    They simply stopped being useful.

    This is how real change happens.

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    Why This Matters Now

    Today, we are trying to solve planetary crises using tools designed for a very different era:

    • an economic system that require perpetual growth

    • structures built on artificial scarcity

    • incentives that reward extraction over regeneration

    • competition framed as human nature rather than a design choice

    Attempts to “fix” these problems from within the same framework often reproduce the problem itself. Growth must continue. Scarcity must be maintained. Profit must be protected — even if ecosystems are not.

    This creates a deep sense of frustration and paralysis. People feel that something is fundamentally wrong, yet every proposed solution seems to reinforce the same destructive logic.

    Buckminster Fuller pointed elsewhere:

    Don’t repair the old world.

    Don’t moralize it.

    Outgrow it.

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    A Different Kind of Revolution

    And perhaps this is where something unprecedented becomes possible.

    Until now, most revolutions in history has produced winners and losers. Power shifted. Property changed hands. One group rose as another fell. Even the most just revolutions carried loss, resentment, and trauma in their wake.

    This next quiet revolution may be different.

    When change happens through obsolescence rather than conquest, no one needs to be defeated. No one needs to be stripped of dignity. No one needs to be declared “on the wrong side of history.”

    When a system fades because it no longer makes sense, there are no enemies — only alternatives.

    In that sense, this may be the first non-zero-sum revolution humanity has ever known. A transition where no one has to lose for others to gain. Where security does not depend on domination. Where fear is no longer the organizing principle of society.

    Not a political revolution.

    A design transition.

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    The Quiet Revolution Today

    A different model is beginning to take shape — not as a single blueprint, but as a shared direction:

    • stewardship and shared access instead of ownership

    • contribution rather than coercion

    • planetary boundaries instead of endless expansion

    • cooperation replacing manufactured competition

    • human dignity treated as foundational, not conditional

    This shift does not need to defeat money, power, or hierarchy.

    They simply lose their function.

    Because it does not arrive with anger, it does not trigger the usual defenses. Algorithms don’t flag it. Institutions don’t recognize it as a threat. It passes through the machinery of the old system largely unnoticed.

    But humans notice.

    A reader pauses mid-scroll.

    Someone shares something quietly.

    A conversation starts — not to persuade, but to understand.

    Nothing explodes. Nothing trends.

    And yet something moves.

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    A Revolution of Relief

    This is not a revolution of rage.

    It is a revolution of relief.

    No leaders to overthrow.

    No enemies to defeat.

    No slogans to chant.

    Just a growing number of people arriving at the same calm realization:

    There may be another way to live.

    And once that realization takes root, it doesn’t need to shout. It spreads naturally — quietly, patiently, inevitably.

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    The Question That Follows

    Which brings us to the question history always asks next:

    What will the next quiet revolution look like?

    Perhaps it will be the moment humanity outgrows senseless trading systems that require endless extraction and ecological destruction.

    Perhaps it will be the moment we recognize that treating Earth as property is incompatible with survival.

    Perhaps it will be the moment we stop organizing society around fear and scarcity, and start organizing it around care, sufficiency, and shared responsibility.

    Not through collapse.

    Not through conquest.

    But through better design.

    A global culture that understands humanity as one family.

    That treats the planet not as a resource, but as a home.

    That makes money and trading gradually irrelevant — not forbidden, but unnecessary.

    If history is any guide, this transition will not arrive with noise.

    It will arrive quietly.

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    Why Stories Matter

    I cannot build an entirely new global system from scratch.

    But I can do the second-best thing.

    I can build an  inspirational model of one.

    A world not presented as theory, but as experience — a place you can step into, live in for a while, and feel what it might be like when fear is no longer the organizing principle of society.

    That world exists in the form of a story.

    Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity follows Benjamin Michaels — a man from the old world who wakes up inside a new one. Not a utopia. Not a dystopia. But a carefully designed society that has quietly made the old system obsolete.

    No conquest.

    No collapse.

    Just better design.

    Because the fastest way to change the world

    is not to fight it —

    but to make the old one unnecessary.

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    The quiet revolution doesn’t announce itself.

    It’s already underway.

  • What Shall People Do When They Have No Jobs?

    What Shall People Do When They Have No Jobs?

    That question is no longer theoretical.

    Artificial intelligence is accelerating toward a world where human labor is no longer required for production at scale. The real issue is not that jobs may disappear — it’s that our entire society still assumes people must have jobs to deserve life.

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    Replace the System, Not the Jobs

    Bernie Sanders calls for pause in AI development:

    When Bernie Sanders asks, “What are they gonna do when people have no jobs?”, he is asking the right question — inside the wrong frame.

    The problem is not that artificial intelligence may eliminate jobs.

    The problem is that our survival is still tied to jobs at all.

    Calling for a pause in AI development assumes that the system we have is fundamentally sound and merely needs time to adjust. 

    It isn’t. 

    AI is not breaking a healthy system — it is exposing a broken one.

    Jobs Were Never the Point

    Jobs are not a natural feature of human societies. They are a construct of the monetary system — a mechanism that ties access to food, shelter, healthcare, and dignity to wage labor.

    For most of human history, people:

    • gathered, built, farmed, cared, created

    • shared resources directly

    • contributed because it made sense, not because they were forced to make money to buy food. 

    The modern job exists primarily to distribute money, not to meet human or planetary needs. When machines become better at performing that distribution-linked labor, the absurdity becomes impossible to ignore.

    Pausing AI Misses the Moment

    Pausing AI development to “save jobs” is like pausing electricity to save candle makers.

    The real question is not:

    How do we preserve jobs?

    But:

    Why should anyone need a job to deserve life?

    AI does not remove meaning, purpose, or contribution from human life. It removes coercion. And that is what truly scares existing systems of power.

    Replace the System — Don’t Redesign It

    There is a crucial difference between redesigning and replacing.

    Redesigning implies:

    • the same assumptions

    • the same scarcity logic

    • the same survival pressure

    Replacing means admitting that the foundation itself is obsolete and crumbling.

    What needs replacing is not work, creativity, or effort — but the idea that humans must earn access to existence.

    • Replace jobs with self-chosen activity

    • Replace ownership with stewardship and money with direct access to resources

    • Replace obligation with intrinsic motivation

    • Replace fear with security

    When survival is guaranteed, contribution does not disappear. It emerges naturally.

    Beyond Contribution as Obligation

    A future beyond jobs does not mean a future without participation.

    It means a future without forced contribution.

    No metrics.

    No punishment.

    No survival conditions.

    People contribute because they want to — because curiosity, care, and creativity are native human traits when fear is removed.

    Trees don’t produce oxygen to earn sunlight. They grow — and oxygen happens as a result.

    The Real Choice

    AI presents humanity with a clear choice:

    • Use it to accelerate inequality inside a dying system

    • Or use it to help replace that system altogether

    Trying to save jobs is trying to save the wrong thing.

    The task now is not to slow down technology —

    It is to replace the system that no longer serves life.

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    What Shall People Do When They Have No Jobs?

    That question sits at the heart of Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity.

    Follow Benjamin Michaels, a man from our world who wakes up a century into the future — in a society that has moved beyond jobs, money, and enforced survival.

    There, he discovers what people actually do when:

    • survival is guaranteed

    • resources are optimized and shared

    • fear is no longer the organizing principle

    Waking Up is not a manifesto or a technical blueprint.

    It is a human story about letting go of a system and mindset that no longer works — and daring to imagine what replaces it.

  • The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius

    The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius

    For centuries, humanity has sensed that history does not move in straight lines, but in long, slow waves. Cultures rise and fall, belief systems crystallize and dissolve, and every so often a deeper shift occurs — one that is felt long before it is understood.

    Astrologers have long described these great transitions as ages, each lasting more than two thousand years, shaped by the slow precession of the equinoxes. Whether one takes astrology symbolically or literally, the language of the ages has proven remarkably accurate in describing humanity’s inner development.

    From Pisces to Aquarius

    The Age of Pisces, which began around the dawn of the Christian era, was defined by faith, sacrifice, hierarchy, and authority. It was an age of belief — belief in God, belief in institutions, belief in systems that promised salvation or order if people obeyed.

    Pisces gave us compassion, art, devotion, and spiritual depth. But it also gave us rigid power structures, religious conflict, and a world organized around obedience and fear. Over time, these systems hardened. What began as guidance became control.

    The Age of Aquarius emerges as a response to this imbalance.

    Aquarius is not about belief, but about knowing. Not about religion and hierarchy, but about science and networks. Not about obedience, but participation. Its core themes are understanding, cooperation, transparency, science, technology, and — above all — humanity seen as a single interconnected whole.

    A Long Transition

    There is no single moment when the Age of Aquarius “starts.” Cultural ages overlap. Old systems do not disappear overnight; they erode while new ones quietly take root.

    Many point to early signals as far back as the Enlightenment. Others see the Industrial Revolution, the rise of electricity, global communication, civil rights movements, space exploration, and the internet as unmistakable Aquarian markers.

    In this sense, we have been entering the Age of Aquarius for generations.

    And yet, only now do its implications become unavoidable.

    The Crisis That Forces Awakening

    Every age change is turbulent. When the old worldview no longer fits reality, crises multiply. Today, humanity faces a convergence of breakdowns:

    • ecological overshoot

    • climate disruption

    • economic inequality

    • mental health collapse

    • technological power without ethical coherence

    These are not isolated problems. They are symptoms of a worldview that has reached its limits.

    Aquarius does not promise comfort. It demands maturity.

    It asks humanity to move from competition to cooperation, from ownership to stewardship, from artificial scarcity to shared abundance.

    A New Question for Humanity

    The core Aquarian question is not:

    Who is right?

    but:

    What works — for everyone and for the planet?

    This is a radical shift. It dissolves ideological battles and replaces them with systemic thinking. It reframes economics, governance, technology, and even identity itself.

    It is here that storytelling becomes essential.

    For some of us, this recognition has personal roots. I was born in 1966 and grew up with the cultural echo of the musical Hair — especially the song Aquarius. Long before I could articulate systems or futures, those words carried a simple, disarming intuition: harmony, understanding, sympathy, trust. As the song goes:

    Harmony and understanding

    Sympathy and trust abounding

    That early emotional imprint never left. It shaped a lifelong sensitivity toward humanity itself — a stubborn wish that we might see one another not as rivals or enemies, but as companions sharing the same fragile world. When stories touch that place, they don’t persuade; they remind.

    No more falsehoods or derisions

    Golden living dreams of visions

    Mystic crystal revelation

    And the mind’s true liberation, Aquarius

    Aquarius

    Why Stories Matter in Times of Transition

    Facts alone do not change civilizations. Stories do.

    Humanity learns through narrative — through imagined futures that allow us to emotionally rehearse what does not yet exist. In earlier ages, myths explained the cosmos. Today, speculative stories explore what kind of society we might become.

    This is where Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity finds its place.

    The novel does not argue. It does not preach. It simply asks:

    What if humanity grew up and outgrew money, war, and artificial scarcity — and built a world organized around cooperation, intelligence, and care for life itself?

    It presents the Age of Aquarius not as ideology, but as lived reality.

    The Age of Aquarius as a Direction, Not a Destination

    The most important misunderstanding about the Age of Aquarius is the belief that it will arrive fully formed.

    It won’t.

    It will be built — patiently, imperfectly — by people who sense that another way is possible, and who are willing to imagine it before it exists.

    Every conversation that replaces fear with understanding.

    Every system redesigned for inclusion instead of control.

    Every story that reminds us we are one human family.

    These are not side notes of history.

    They are how ages change.

    A Quiet Dawn

    The dawning of the Age of Aquarius is not announced with trumpets.

    It arrives quietly — in ideas that refuse to go away, in values that feel self-evident to new generations, in the growing discomfort with systems that no longer make sense.

    And perhaps most of all, it arrives in a simple, radical longing:

    That we might stop seeing one another as enemies — and begin, at last, to see ourselves as partners.

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    Call to Action

    If this vision resonates with you — if you sense that humanity is standing at the threshold of a new way of living — Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity offers a story that explores that future from the inside.

    Not as fantasy. Not as doctrine.

    But as an invitation and inspiration.

    Are you one of those who sense that another way is possible?

    Are you willing to imagine it before it exists?

    If so:

    Read the book. Share the idea. Be part of the dawn.

  • How Can Ending the Monetary System Save the Planet?

    How Can Ending the Monetary System Save the Planet?

    At first glance, the question sounds absurd.

    Money feels neutral — just a tool for exchange. Environmental destruction is usually framed as a technological problem, a political failure, or a lack of individual responsibility.

    But what if it’s none of those?

    What if the primary driver of ecological collapse is a system that requires endless growth on a finite planet?

    And what if, by following that logic honestly, we discover something even more unsettling:

    That the same system destroying Earth is also quietly destroying our lives and our dignity.

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    Growth is not a flaw — it is a requirement

    In a monetary system, growth is not optional.

    • Companies must grow to survive.

    • Nations must grow GDP to remain stable.

    • Debt requires interest, which requires expansion.

    But Earth does not grow.

    Forests regenerate slowly.

    Soils take centuries to rebuild.

    Oceans absorb damage silently — until they don’t.

    The collision is inevitable:

    Infinite economic growth meets finite ecological limits.

    This is not a moral failure.

    It is a design conflict.

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    Money turns living systems into profit

    In a monetary framework, nature has value only when it can be priced.

    A living forest is “unused land.”

    A cut forest is “economic activity.”

    Clean air, biodiversity, climate stability, and future generations do not appear on balance sheets — so they are systematically ignored.

    What cannot be monetized is treated as expendable.

    The result is not stewardship, but liquidation.

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    Profit rewards destruction faster than care

    Today, it is often cheaper to pollute than to protect.

    It is more profitable to extract than to regenerate.

    It is easier to destroy than to repair.

    Environmental damage is labeled an “externality” — a cost pushed onto nature, communities, or the future.

    This doesn’t happen because people are evil.

    It happens because the system reward the wrong behavior.

    As long as money is the scoreboard, the fastest destroyers tend to win.

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    The planet is indebted to itself — and it is still not enough

    Here is the absurdity, stated plainly:

    The entire planet is in debt to itself. It’s basically bankrupt.

    Total global debt now equals more than three years of the planet’s entire yearly output — everything humanity produces in one year, multiplied by three, already promised away.

    And even that is still not enough.

    Because if we stop borrowing — the system breaks.

    If we stop growing — the system collapses.

    If we stop expanding — debt becomes unpayable, which it is already, as the money we use ARE debt. “Paying it back” will mean we don’t have any money anymore.Still, governments think debt can actually be paid back. But even trying means creating more debt and more environmental destruction.

    So even while drowning in debt, we are told we must take on more.

    More loans.

    More growth.

    More extraction.

    More pressure on land, oceans, climate, and people.

    Debt is not just money owed. It is a demand placed on the future and the planet itself.

    It is a claim that tomorrow must produce more than today — forever.

    But the planet does not know debt.

    The planet does not grow GDP.

    The planet does not compound interest.

    Forests do not grow faster because markets demand it.

    Oceans do not replenish on quarterly schedules.

    Soils do not regenerate on balance-sheet timelines.

    This is the core insanity:

    We have built a system that treats Earth as an infinite credit card —

    and even after maxing it out, demands a higher limit.

    That is why this is not a problem that can be fixed with better regulation, greener growth, or smarter finance.

    A system that requires endless expansion on a finite planet is not malfunctioning.

    It is doing exactly what it was designed to do. 

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    Artificial scarcity fuels overconsumption

    Money-based systems depend on scarcity.

    Not natural scarcity — manufactured scarcity.

    There is enough food, yet people starve.

    More than enough homes, yet people sleep outside.

    An abundance of energy from the sun, yet we burn the planet for fuel.

    Scarcity is no longer a condition of nature.

    It is a condition of design.

    And scarcity doesn’t just damage ecosystems — it damages people.

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    A wounded humanity consumes to compensate

    Much of modern overconsumption is not driven by greed.

    It is driven by emptiness.

    When work is disconnected from meaning,

    when time is stolen from life,

    when worth is measured numerically,

    people compensate.

    With status.

    With possessions.

    With distraction.

    The planet pays the price for a wound we rarely name.

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    The same system erodes human dignity

    In a monetary world, your value becomes conditional.

    You are valued when you are:

    • productive,

    • efficient,

    • competitive,

    • profitable.

    Rest must be earned.

    Care must be justified.

    Illness becomes a liability.

    Aging becomes a problem.

    Your right to exist quietly shifts from being human to being useful.

    That shift happens slowly — until exhaustion feels normal.

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    Ending money changes the question

    Without money, society stops asking:

    “Is this profitable?”

    And begins asking:

    “Is this necessary?”

    “Is this sustainable?”

    “Does this improve life — for people and the planet?”

    Production becomes needs-based.

    Technology serves life, not return on investment.

    Durability replaces planned obsolescence.

    This is not idealism.

    It is systems logic.

    Why saving the planet without ending the monetary system is almost impossible

    It is not that people aren’t trying to save the planet within the monetary system today — they are. 

    But every serious environmental effort is forced to operate against the system’s underlying logic. Renewable energy must compete with fossil fuels on price. Ecosystem protection must justify itself in economic terms. Climate action must promise growth, jobs, and returns to be considered “realistic.” 

    In other words, nature is allowed to survive only if it can be made profitable. 

    This creates a constant contradiction: we try to heal the planet while preserving the very engine that requires its continued destruction. As long as money, debt, and growth remain the organizing principles of society, ecological protection will always be partial, fragile, and reversible — tolerated only until it threatens profits. That is why saving the planet without ending the monetary system is not just difficult; it may be structurally impossible.

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    But what can we have instead? This is the only system we’ve got. Or is it…?

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    Stewardship replaces ownership

    When land, water, and ecosystems are no longer owned for profit:

    • extraction loses its incentive,

    • care becomes collective,

    • long-term thinking becomes natural.

    The guiding question shifts from:

    “How can we extract as much as possible?”

    to:

    “How do we keep this system healthy for generations?”

    That shift alone rewrites humanity’s relationship with Earth.

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    Saving the planet is not only about the planet

    A humanity stripped of dignity will compete, consume, and destroy.

    Not because it is evil — but because it is wounded.

    A humanity that feels safe, valued, and meaningful does not need to dominate its environment.

    Healed people make good ancestors.

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    The deeper truth

    Money is not neutral.

    It is a behavioral engine.

    And as long as that engine requires scarcity, competition, and endless growth, ecological collapse is not a failure.

    It is the expected outcome.

    Ending the monetary system does not magically save the planet.

    But it removes the root incentive that is currently destroying it —

    and gives both Earth and humanity a chance to recover.

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    Call to action

    This is the core vision explored in Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity — a story that doesn’t ask whether such a world is perfect, but whether it becomes possible once the old rules are removed.

    The question is no longer whether we can afford to imagine a world beyond money.

    The question is whether we can afford not to. If you want to be inspired, dive into this new world with Benjamin Michaels:

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  • A 1200-Page Warning: Nothing Is Going in the Right Direction — But What If We Acted in Time?

    A 1200-Page Warning: Nothing Is Going in the Right Direction — But What If We Acted in Time?

    UN’s new GEO-7 report calls for a complete economic transformation — and invites us to imagine the world we could still create.

    Read the report here if you like:

    https://www.unep.org/geo/global-environment-outlook-7

    When the United Nations releases a Global Environment Outlook, the world is meant to take notice. The latest one — GEO-7, more than 1,200 pages long and created by hundreds of scientists across disciplines — is not a gentle document. It does not soothe, and it does not flatter. It delivers a single, unsettling truth:

    Nothing in the global environment is moving in the right direction.

    GEO-7 is the most comprehensive environmental “health check” humanity has ever received. It examines climate, biodiversity, pollution, land degradation, freshwater decline, and material use — not separately, but as one interconnected crisis. And when you see the whole picture at once, the conclusion becomes unavoidable:

    Humanity has destabilized the very systems that make life possible.

    Yet the report does something even more important than document the damage.

    It points directly at the cause.

    And it says the quiet part out loud.

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    The System Itself Is the Problem

    For the first time in a UN environmental assessment of this scale, the authors state clearly:

    Humanity cannot solve these crises within the current economic system.

    A systemic transformation is required.

    This is not activist rhetoric.

    It is the institutional voice of global science.

    GEO-7 lays it out plainly: We are trying to preserve a living planet using an economic logic designed for extraction, competition, short-term survival and endless material expansion. It worked while the world was large and humanity was small. But now we realize the world is finite and humanity is enormous — consuming at a level the Earth cannot regenerate. We have already entered deep ecological overshoot: using the equivalent of multiple planets’ worth of resources every year, drawing down forests, soils, oceans and biodiversity faster than they can rebuild themselves. In other words, we are living on borrowed time from ecosystems that can no longer keep up with the demands of an outdated economic system.

    Our system rewards destruction because destruction is profitable.

    It treats nature as “free” until it collapses.

    It externalizes costs until they come back as disaster.

    The report is diplomatic, but the meaning is blunt:

    The global economy is structurally misaligned with the continuation of life.

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    Robert Watson: “It Costs More to Be Passive Than to Act.”

    One of GEO-7’s leading contributors, world-renowned scientist Robert Watson, summarized the situation with sharp clarity:

    “It costs more to be passive than to act.”

    GEO-7 estimates that deep global transitions — energy, food, materials, waste, transport — would save humanity thousands of billions of dollars, eventually rising to tens of trillions in avoided damages.

    Think about that:

    The greatest financial savings in human history are found in not destroying our home.

    And Watson goes further: only a new economic system — one that values planetary stability, regeneration and long-term wellbeing — can prevent collapse. Incremental fixes won’t work. Price adjustments won’t work. Technological substitution won’t work without systemic redesign.

    This is the part of the report that should be printed in bold, underlined, and taped to every parliament door:

    We are not choosing between “expensive action” and “cheap inaction.”

    We are choosing between investment and ruin —

    and ultimately, between the life and death of our planet.

    Because if we fail to act, the costs won’t just be financial.

    They will be existential.

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    But Here Is the Real Question:

    What Does Acting in Time Actually Look Like for our future?

    Reports diagnose.

    Policies prescribe.

    Economists calculate.

    But humanity also needs something else:

    A vision.

    Because we are not only facing an environmental crisis.

    We are facing an imagination crisis.

    We know what failure looks like.

    But what does global success feel like?

    What does a world look like where we truly acted in time?

    A world where:

    • collaboration replaced competition,

    • regeneration replaced extraction,

    • shared inheritance replaced private hoarding,

    • and value was measured in life, not currency?

    This is where science reaches its limit — and story begins.

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    A Glimpse Into a World Where Humanity Chose Another Path

    In the novel Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity, I explore a future set about one hundred years after we finally did what the GEO-7 scientists are begging us to do today.

    It is a world where humanity ultimately realized:

    If the economic system is killing us, the only logical solution is to create a new one.

    But the world of Waking Up goes one step further — the step no scientific report dares to make:

    Humanity discovered that the most efficient, regenerative, fair and intelligent economic system was… no money at all.

    Because when all resources are declared the shared inheritance of all people,

    when technology handles abundance and distribution,

    when wellbeing replaces profit as the guiding principle…

    then the greatest savings of all become obvious:

    We saved not thousands of billions.

    Not trillions.

    But an infinite amount of money — by abolishing money itself.

    You cannot spend money that no longer exists.

    You cannot misallocate resources when everything is shared.

    You cannot bankrupt a planet when its systems are aligned with nature instead of against it.

    In the world of Waking Up, humanity didn’t just cut costs.

    Humanity ended the concept of cost itself.

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    Why This Vision Matters Now

    GEO-7 gives us the clearest scientific warning ever issued.

    It tells us what will happen if we continue down this path.

    It tells us what we could save if we change course.

    But reports alone do not inspire transformation.

    They cannot show us how it feels to live in a world healed from fear and scarcity.

    For that, we need imagination.

    We need courage.

    We need stories that reveal the contours of a future worth fighting for.

    Because between the data and the dream, a new world waits.

    And every transformation in human history began first as an idea.

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    If you want to experience a world where humanity acted in time —

    and saved the greatest amount of money by making money obsolete —

    you can step into that world HERE.

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