ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL INSTABILITY - SOCIAL OPTIONS.

Science and technology underpin social commerce. Art is the organic counterbalance to science and technology. Art is responsible for sculpting our species’ presence in the broader ecosystem. It encompasses aesthetics, religion, culture, relationships and spirituality. A functional civilisation requires a balance of both elements, art reflecting the organic side of life, and commerce, dealing with life’s operational logistics. Another way of looking at it is that commerce is an investment in maintaining a presence, art is the reward.
So how might humanity act to restore a sustainable balance? Simple adjustments to its current agenda are futile. A new approach to life is needed. One featuring a philosophy that values the mechanics of environmental balance. One that advocates for Homo sapiens to adjust its presence accordingly.
Any new approach must feature common sense. It would need to sponsor the concept of ‘the natural commons’ by exercising governance which sustainably regulates society’s requirements for access thereto. It also would need to promote religion as a personal relationship with nature, encouraging a lifestyle built on the principle of governance by the people for the planet.
That would involve four major changes. (1) The first would be to reintroduce human scale communities where power, finance and education would be equally accessible to every member of the community. (2) At the same time, flawed leadership must be replaced with a facilitative process that seeks to balance materialism with quality-of-life outcomes, weaken class distinctions, and generally downsize the environmental footprint of the species. (3) Commerce must be rebalanced to become a mutually beneficial exercise, rather than a ‘get rich quick’ competition. Commerce, in its pure form, facilitates sharing. (4) Finally, human weakness must be neutralised, and the only way that might happen is with the appropriate use of artificial intelligence.

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