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  • How Money Kills Sustainability

    How Money Kills Sustainability

    Everyone talks about sustainability, but almost no one questions the systemic structure that makes sustainability impossible.

    For decades, politicians, corporations, and well-meaning environmentalists have sung the same song:

    “We must be more sustainable.”

    More recycling. More green technology. More “eco-friendly” packaging. More energy-efficient cars and LED bulbs. On and on the chorus goes — a global choir repeating the mantra of sustainability while the Earth continues to burn.

    But despite all the talk, the world’s condition worsens. The oceans fill with plastic, forests vanish, species disappear, and temperatures rise. Every summit, every agreement, every pledge — somehow the graphs still move in the wrong direction. Why?

    Because none of them ever address the root cause:

    The Monetary System itself.

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    The System That Requires Breakdown

    In the monetary system, everything must eventually break down.

    Not only products — but people, ecosystems, and peace.

    This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s simple arithmetic. The monetary system is a machine that only moves when money circulates. For it to function, things must be constantly bought, sold, replaced, and repaired unless it can be replaced. If products lasted forever, if homes were self-sufficient, if people needed less instead of more — the economy would grind to a halt.

    And so we have planned obsolescence — products deliberately designed to fail or become outdated. Phones that die after a few years, clothes that tear easily, cars that are cheaper to replace than repair. Waste isn’t an accident of the system; it’s a feature. The moment something lasts, it stops generating profit.

    But the most effective form of obsolescence isn’t physical — it’s psychological.

    Advertising convinces us that last year’s perfectly good clothes are suddenly out of fashion, that our still-functioning phone now makes us look poor or old-fashioned. It implants subtle dissatisfaction and status anxiety until we feel compelled to buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy.

    If we made phones that lasted twenty years, cars that never rusted, or clothes that didn’t tear — or if advertising stopped convincing us that last year’s styles were shameful relics — millions would lose their jobs.

    In today’s world, sustainability is bankruptcy.

    The Growth Trap

    Every politician promises “economic growth.” Every company must deliver “quarterly growth.” Every nation competes for “GDP growth.” But growth, in a world of finite resources, is just another word for consuming more faster.

    Imagine a tree that never stops growing. At first it’s impressive. Then it crushes its surroundings, breaks its roots, and topples under its own weight. That’s our global economy — a cancerous organism mistaking endless expansion for health.

    The irony is brutal:

    The more we grow economically, the poorer the planet becomes.

    Every increase in GDP means another forest cut down, another mine opened, another shipment of “essential goods” crossing the world. The system rewards destruction and calls it development.

    And because money creates dependency, even the well-intentioned are trapped. A farmer who wants to protect his land must still sell crops. A doctor who dreams of curing people must work within the insurance system. A scientist who invents a breakthrough battery must sell it to investors who only care about quarterly returns.

    No one is free — not even those who want to do good.

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    Innovation or Reinvention of Waste?

    We like to celebrate “innovation.” But much of what we call innovation is simply yet more waste reinvented — a slightly better phone, a shinier car, a new fashion line made with “50% recycled polyester.” The treadmill spins, and we clap for efficiency while the pile of trash grows.

    The monetary system doesn’t reward real progress — it rewards marketable novelty.

    If a company designs a technology that truly ends scarcity, it threatens every business model built on selling scarcity. That’s why free-energy devices never reach the market, why open-source solutions are underfunded, and why humanity’s brightest minds are hired to optimize ads instead of optimize life.

    We have the technology to make abundance real.

    But abundance is not profitable. Unfortunately.

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    How Money Divides What Nature Unites

    Nature doesn’t bill for sunlight, charge for rain, or issue invoices for oxygen. It flows. It shares. It recycles perfectly. The only species that interrupts this harmony is the one that put a price tag on everything.

    Money divides what nature unites.

    It turns cooperation into competition, generosity into transaction, and trust into contract.

    It teaches us to see each other not as extensions of ourselves, but as resources to extract from or threats to outcompete.

    The results are everywhere: loneliness, burnout, exploitation, and war.

    Even peace becomes an industry — financed, negotiated, and sold.

    And still, we wonder why sustainability seems unreachable.

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    Beyond the Economy

    A truly sustainable world begins when we stop asking how to fix the economy and start asking why we need one at all.

    What if we designed systems not for profit but for wellbeing?

    What if we measured success in health, harmony, and happiness — not in money?

    What if technology  served life instead of the market?

    The truth is that money once had a purpose. It simplified trade when resources were scarce and communication was limited. But today, technology has removed those limits. We can coordinate globally, automate production, and distribute abundance intelligently. The old operating system — money — has become the bottleneck. It forces artificial scarcity in a world that could already be free.

    It’s not that humanity lacks solutions. It’s that the current system forbids them due to its profit demand.

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    The Shift Ahead

    When people hear about a world beyond money, many recoil:

    “Without money, how would we build roads? How would people work? Who would do the hard jobs?”

    But those questions only make sense inside the monetary mindset. In a natural exchange system — a world based on contribution, access, and stewardship — the answers change completely. Roads are built because people need them, not because someone profits. Work is shared according to passion and skill, not survival. Technology handles the labor that nobody enjoys.

    That is not utopia — it’s simply evolution. A new operating system for an awakened humanity.

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    The End of the Old Song

    So the next time a politician preaches about sustainability, ask:

    “Do you mean sustainability of the planet — or sustainability of the economy?”

    Because those two are no longer compatible.

    A world that survives by endless consumption will consume itself… and die.

    And a species that measures life in profit will soon find life too expensive to afford.

    Money was humanity’s cleverest invention — and now it’s our most dangerous addiction.

    It’s time to wake up, log out of the old system, and begin designing the new one.

    Because a sustainable world — a peaceful, abundant, balanced world —

    will never be built within the monetary system.

    It begins after it.

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    Beyond Money

    Discover how humanity could move beyond money and create a world that truly works — for people, communities, and the planet.

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  • When We Have No Choice but to Collaborate

    When We Have No Choice but to Collaborate

    When hurricanes tear roofs from homes like Band-Aids, when rivers overflow entire cities, when wildfires blacken skies from Canada to Greece — nature reminds us of something we’ve long forgotten: we’re all in the same boat.

    The recent devastation in Jamaica, where Hurricane Melissa left unimaginable destruction and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate, is not an isolated event. It’s part of a rising pattern — storms, floods, and fires now so powerful that no nation, no corporation, no ideology, and certainly no family or individual  can handle them alone.

    Collaboration is no longer optional

    When disaster strikes, competition collapses.

    Think of the wildfires in Greece and California, where thousands of firefighters from different nations joined forces because the flames ignored borders.

    Or the COVID-19 pandemic, which revealed that no country can isolate itself from an invisible threat — we either share information and medicine, or we all suffer.

    Or the floods in Pakistan, submerging a third of the country and demanding global aid to prevent famine and disease.

    And the European droughts of 2022 and 2023, which exposed the fragility of an entire continent: the Rhine and Danube ran so low that barges carrying coal and grain could no longer pass; France’s nuclear plants had to reduce output because cooling water was too warm; Spain’s reservoirs dried to cracked mud plains as farmers watched their crops die.

    Suddenly, the flow of water — once taken for granted — became a shared lifeline, forcing nations that had long competed for energy and trade to co-manage rivers, power grids, and emergency reserves simply to keep their societies running.

    Even space debris orbiting Earth is now a shared danger, forcing rivals to coordinate to keep satellites — and civilization — functional.

    These are not moral choices. They’re survival imperatives.

    Nature, physics, and biology are saying the same thing:

    Collaborate — or collapse.

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    Proof that we can

    History shows that when humanity truly faces extinction-level threats, we can rise above our divisions.

    • The Montreal Protocol (1987) — one of the rare global environmental successes — saw countries unite to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals. The ozone layer is now healing.

    • The international vaccine effort during COVID-19, despite chaos and politics, became the fastest cooperative medical breakthrough in history.

    • The International Space Station, built by fifteen nations once divided by war, still circles the Earth as a living symbol of what humanity can achieve when it stops competing and starts co-creating.

    • The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard safeguards the genetic foundation of our food systems, maintained through peaceful cooperation even between nations in conflict.

    Each example declares the same truth: when survival is at stake, collaboration beats control.

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    Can We Stop Climate Change?

    The uncomfortable truth is: no, we can’t stop it entirely.

    Not anymore. The system is already in motion — oceans have warmed, glaciers are melting, and feedback loops like methane release and forest die-back are accelerating. What we’re witnessing now are the lagging effects of decades of fossil-fuel addiction. Even if we stopped all emissions today, the planet would keep warming for decades.

    But that doesn’t mean we’re powerless.

    It means we’re entering the era of responsibility — where humanity decides whether this transformation becomes a collapse or a rebirth.

    Here’s what we still can do:

    • Slow the momentum. Every fraction of a degree we prevent means fewer hurricanes, less drought, and millions of lives saved. Renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, and reforestation aren’t just “green projects” — they’re emergency brakes on a speeding train.

    • Adapt intelligently. Cities can be redesigned for resilience: water recycling, local food systems, hurricane safe buildings, self-sufficient energy grids, and shared resource hubs — prototypes of what Cities of Light could become.

    • Heal ecosystems, not just economies. Nature can recover faster than we imagine — coral reefs, forests, and soils — if we simply stop harming them and assist their regeneration.

    • Collaborate globally. Climate doesn’t care about politics. Shared data, open technology, and cooperative disaster response must become the new norm.

    • Transform consciousness. Ultimately, the crisis is not environmental — it’s psychological. It’s the illusion of separation that allows destruction. When we see Earth not as a resource to exploit but as a living system of which we are part, everything changes.

    Do we have the money?

    But here’s a question few dare to ask out loud:

    Do we even have the money to do everything we must — to prepare, to brace, to rebuild, and to restore balance in the face and aftermath of accelerating climate change?

    Every expert agrees we have the resources, the technology, and the human capacity. What we lack is the permission of an outdated system — one that measures possibility in dollars instead of reality.

    So maybe it’s time to ask not “can we afford it?” but rather “can we afford to keep measuring life in this way?”

    The Monetary System

    But even if we did try to fund everything through the existing system, it would likely destabilize that very system. The monetary architecture we rely on was built for perpetual growth and profit — not planetary repair. Pouring tens of trillions into climate mitigation and adaptation without corresponding “returns” would expose how money itself depends on expansion, debt, and competition. Printing(digital and physical) or borrowing enough to save the planet would trigger inflation, strain supply chains, and shake the foundations of the global economy, revealing a painful irony: even survival doesn’t fit within the logic of our financial model.

    Yet that may be precisely the point of awakening. The moment we realize that saving life on Earth could bankrupt the very system designed to measure it, we also see what must come next — a transition from a profit-driven economy to a resource-based coordination system where collaboration and need, not capital, decides what can be done.

    From crisis to awakening

    Climate change is not the end of the world. It’s the end of a way of living in the world.

    And in that ending lies the beginning of something extraordinary — a civilization finally mature enough to act as one organism.

    The storms, the fires, the floods — they are the Earth’s way of saying:

    “Grow up. Work together. Remember who you are.”

    Because the truth is simple:

    When the storms come, there’s only one safe place to stand — together.

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    The Natural Exchange System

    In the novel Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity, the human population has awakened to precisely this truth. If we are to survive as a species on this planet, we must enter the phase of responsible collaboration, where we abandon the most destructive system on Earth: The Monetary System – and replace it with one where people and nature is front and center, not profit.

    Follow Benjamin Michaels when he wakes up in a world where humanity has taken collaboration to its utmost limit —

    and abandoned this system.

    In its place, a new model has emerged — one that works for both people and planet:

    NES — the Natural Exchange System, a society that mimics nature in human interactions.

    Just like in nature, exchange happens effortlessly — without money or trading — when each part contributes what it’s meant to and finds fulfillment in doing it.

    The soil doesn’t send an invoice to the tree for nutrients, nor does the bee demand payment for pollination. The ecosystem thrives through spontaneous reciprocity — a living flow of giving and receiving that keeps the whole balanced.

    In this same spirit, AI and robotics take care of tasks no one feels called to do — cleaning streets, collecting waste, managing logistics — freeing human beings to focus on creativity, empathy, learning, and the joy of purposeful living.

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    Call To Action

    Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity isn’t a blueprint — but it is an inspiration.

    A vision of what becomes possible when humanity dares to move beyond money, fear, and separation — and begins to live by trust, collaboration, and care for the planet and each other.

    By reading it — and by sharing these articles — you help spread that vision.

    Every person who awakens to a new way of thinking brings us closer to the tipping point where change becomes inevitable.

    Read it. Share it. Be part of the awakening.

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  • The Invention of Scarcity

    The Invention of Scarcity

    For centuries, humanity has lived under two great experiments: capitalism and communism. On the surface, they seem like opposites — one worships the market, the other the state. But beneath their differences lies the same hidden root: fear and lack of trust.

    Artificial Scarcity

    Both systems were born from the same doubt — the belief that people cannot be trusted to share, cooperate, or care without being controlled.

    So one tried to control through money and ownership, the other through authority and rules.

    Both tried to prevent chaos. Both tried to prevent scarcity.

    But in truth, both created it.

    Capitalism thrives on artificial scarcity — on turning natural abundance into commodities, putting a price tag on life itself. It must keep people wanting, buying, and competing, because without scarcity, money loses meaning. Anything abundantly available has no value in capitalism.

    Communism, on the other hand, tried to redistribute the same imagined scarcity by replacing private ownership with state ownership and planning. But it still relied on control — and too much control always chokes flow. It feared greed, so it built walls. But walls only hide abundance from those who need it most. State control and distribution in communism only created a bottleneck for resources that was abundant in the first place, just like money and private ownership creates many bottlenecks in capitalism. Abundant resources first have to be filtered through who owns what and who can pay for it.

    Communism didn’t abolish ownership — it merely transferred it from individuals to the state. The state claimed all resources and distributed them as it saw fit. That’s not freedom; it’s just another form of control. True freedom begins only when ownership itself dissolves, and resources become our shared inheritance — managed with trust, not fear.

    The Currency of Trust

    And then, of course, it’s easy to think, “Oh, but… what if someone just takes much more than they need?”

    And that’s exactly how the old spiral begins again. Because that thought itself — that fear — is the opposite of trust.

    It’s the seed from which all control and scarcity grow.

    We simply need to choose trust, even in spite of the fear we might feel. Because when someone starts truly trusting, it spreads. Trust becomes contagious — and before long, fear loses its grip. In the end, both systems are mirrors of each other — two expressions of the same misunderstanding of human nature. Both are built on the assumption that trust is naïve, and that without control, people would take more than they need.

    But what if it’s the other way around?

    What if trust is the real economy — the invisible current that makes life flow? And a current that actually multiplies the more it is used. The more we trust the more trusting we get.

    What if scarcity was never natural at all, but a collective illusion born from fear?

    In the new world, the one described in Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity, humanity simply remembers.

    We remember that the Earth already gives freely and abundantly. That collaboration isn’t utopian — it’s instinctive. That when everything is shared, nothing needs to be hoarded.

    It’s not communism, and it’s not capitalism.

    It’s a completely free world where humanity has simply chosen to share it instead of hoarding it.

    A world built not on fear, but on trust.

    And in that trust, the myth of scarcity finally ends.

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  • What if Everyone Awakened Tomorrow…?

    What if Everyone Awakened Tomorrow…?

    This isn’t just a spiritual fantasy; it’s a thought experiment that could reshape our understanding of humanity’s potential. What would happen if, overnight, 8 billion people saw through the illusions of materialism and power? Let’s explore this hypothetical scenario, diving into the immediate chaos, the transformation of society, and the long-term possibilities for a world reborn.

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    🌪️ Day One: The Chaos

    Picture the scene: it’s October 27, 2025, and at precisely 8:00 AM, a wave of clarity sweeps the globe. Every person, from a farmer in rural India to a CEO in Manhattan, grasps the truth of existence—connection over competition, love over fear. The first hours are chaotic, but not in a destructive way. 

    The world hits pause.

    Workplaces grind to a halt. Politicians mid-speech freeze, drop their scripts, and declare “I’m sorry.”

    Stock markets collapse not from fear — but because no one cares about profit anymore.

    Pilots land their planes, hug their passengers, and walk into the sunset to meditate.

    X melts into a global therapy circle. Billionaires start live-streaming apologies.

    Elon Musk tweets: “Turns out rockets were just a distraction from inner peace. Selling everything for a commune on Mars — BYO enlightenment.”

    Armies lay down weapons. Dictators call for forgiveness summits.

    Banks and governments start erasing all debt.

    The Vatican live-streams “We meant well.”

    And somewhere, Jeff Bezos stares at a warehouse and whispers:

    “Why do I own all this stuff when others have nothing?”

    Moments later, he donates it all.

    Chaos? Yes.

    But it’s a sacred kind — the confusion of humanity waking from a collective nightmare.

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    ☀️ Day Two: The Calm

    Then, silence.

    A great, planetary exhale.

    The systems built on fear and scarcity simply… stop.

    There’s no revolution, no coup — just a quiet realization that competition no longer makes sense.

    Former leaders become stewards of the Earth, and take all people with them. Corporations turn into Communities.

    Money dissolves, not through decree but through irrelevance.

    The same data that once optimized profit now coordinates abundance.

    AI becomes a caretaker of harmony — helping match every resource to every need.

    No hunger. No hoarding. No ownership — only usership and stewardship, guided by compassion and common sense.

    Cities evolve into Cities of Light, radiant ecosystems where architecture follows nature, art, and joy.

    Education becomes exploration.

    Governments transform into councils of wisdom.

    Borders fade, for who can fence the sky?

    Humanity steps into what it always was meant to be: a living, creative organism of love.

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    🌍 The Reunion of the Human Tribe

    And as the light of awareness stabilizes, something beautiful happens.

    We stop identifying as nations, classes, or ideologies.

    We remember that we’re a single tribe on a small, luminous sphere — spinning together through infinite space.

    War becomes unimaginable.

    Healing becomes the new free economy.

    Art becomes the language of diplomacy.

    The world no longer needs saving. It simply needs remembering.

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    ✨ From Fiction to Possibility

    This is the world imagined in Waking Up — A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity:

    a world where awakening spreads not by force, but by resonance.

    A world where humanity finally grows up, smiles at its own madness, and chooses love.

    Maybe it didn’t happen overnight.

    But every thought, every act of kindness, every page you turn toward awakening… brings it closer.

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    🌅 Call to Action

    Dive deeper into the vision of a world beyond money, fear, and separation.

    Read Waking Up — A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity today and join the movement of dreamers who dare to imagine the next step in human evolution.

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  • How We Can ALL live a Life of Luxury on Earth — Without Breaking the Planet

    How We Can ALL live a Life of Luxury on Earth — Without Breaking the Planet

    From Excess to Access — A glimpse into the next Paradigm where Abundance, Technology, and Wisdom unite to create a world that works for everyone.

    Imagine a world where every human being lives in comfort and beauty.

    Where homes are energy-self-sufficient, food is fresh and locally grown, transport is clean and free, and no one worries about bills, borders, or basic survival.

    It sounds like a dream — but it’s only our outdated economic system that makes it seem impossible.

    The Myth of Scarcity

    We’ve been raised to believe there’s not enough for everyone — not enough land, not enough jobs, not enough “money.” Yet the Earth is overflowing with resources.

    We have enough sunlight striking the planet each hour to power civilization for a year. We produce 43 kg of food per day per person per year. But most is wasted to create profit. We have enough empty homes to house every homeless person several times over. Enough food to feed everyone — if we stopped throwing away most of it.

    Scarcity isn’t a natural law. It’s a policy decision.

    Scarcity is an artificial outcome of a system that rewards hoarding and punishes sharing — where competition, debt, and profit come before cooperation, dignity, and Life itself.

    The Real Meaning of Luxury

    Luxury today is marketed as excess — yachts, jets, and exclusivity. But true luxury has nothing to do with waste.

    Real luxury is freedom from stress, clean air, time to create, connection, and purpose.

    It’s walking barefoot on living soil, sleeping in peace, eating food you can trust, and feeling as part of something larger than yourself.

    When we redefine luxury from excess to access, the equation changes completely.

    A world where everyone has access to clean healthy water, sustainable energy, creative tools, and regenerative design is not only possible — it’s inevitable once we stop measuring life in old outdated currency.

    The Paradise Is Already Here

    There are over 100,000 tropical islands on Earth — from the turquoise lagoons of the Pacific to the coral-fringed coasts of the Indian Ocean and Caribbean.

    Humanity has more than 620,000 kilometers of coastline, much of it pristine and uninhabited. There is, quite literally, enough paradise for everyone.

    If we organized wisely, each of us could spend a good part of our year on a tropical beach, sipping an umbrella drink served by elegant solar-powered robots. If that’s what we wanted.

    And there would still be plenty of room — because people are beautifully different. Not everyone wants a Mai Tai under the palm trees. Some prefer mountain air, snow, forests, deserts, or bustling creative cities. The abundance of this planet includes the diversity of our dreams.

    The Tools Are Already Here

    We already possess everything required to build this world: renewable energy, 3D-printed housing, circular materials, global knowledge sharing, and AI-assisted logistics that can map and manage resources with stunning precision.

    What we lack isn’t technology — it’s alignment.

    A willingness to use these tools for collaboration instead of competition.

    The shift is from ownership to stewardship — from “mine” to “ours.” When resources become a shared inheritance instead of private property, abundance stops being an illusion.

    A Glimpse from the Future

    In Waking Up – A Journey Towards a New Dawn for Humanity, Benjamin Michaels wakes to a world that has made this transition.

    Money no longer exists. The Natural Exchange System ensures that everyone’s needs are met intelligently and sustainably. Cities of Light shine as living ecosystems — where architecture, art, and nature merge.

    It’s not a utopia. It’s simply what happens when humanity grows up — when we stop surviving and start thriving together.

    The Invitation

    The new world isn’t waiting in the future; it’s waiting in us.

    Every act of sharing, repairing, planting, and caring moves us closer. Every moment we choose collaboration over competition, we bring a fragment of paradise into form.

    We can all live a life of luxury — not by taking more, but by realizing we already have enough to share with everyone.

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  • 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.

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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.

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    Only for the brave

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    It questions everything we take for granted —

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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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