Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in the noosphere about how to proceed with those problems. We cannot rein in industry if we cannot reach mutual understanding and mutual agreement based on a worldcentric moral perspective concerning the global commons. And we reach the worldcentric moral perspective through a difficult and laborious process of interior growth and transcendence.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Environmental problems stem from lack of global moral agreement, which requires inner growth.
- In plain terms
- The real problem is no global agreement; we need inner growth to fix it.
- What can you take from it?
- Grow internally to reach global moral agreement.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What moral perspective do we need?
- How does inner growth help?
Another view
Industrial issues also need direct technical and economic solutions.
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