Zan Yu said, "Once there are so many people, what should be done?"
"Enrich them," said the Master.
"Once they are enriched, what next?"
"Educate them."
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Zan Yu said, "Once there are so many people, what should be done?"
"Enrich them," said the Master.
"Once they are enriched, what next?"
"Educate them."
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.