Unbridled globalism with its singular goal of profit has failed us. Commerce must exist to serve human need, instead of ruining lives for corporate greed. Localism creates jobs, opportunities for engagement and abundance, increasing our safety, sustainability and happiness.
We vote with each dollar we spend. Will we support Walmart or a local retailer, McDonald's or a local restaurant? Will we support worker-owned business, co-ops, unions and cottage industries?These everyday decisions are transformative, and mark the quality of our lives.
4] ORGANIC FOOD is the only healthy and sustainable food system.
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J. R. R. Tolkien
The industrial food system has caused massive pollution, desertification, soil loss and environmental destruction that are matched only by the terrible quality of the food produced. By migrating to organic food, we create ecologies within our land and health within our bodies.
Throughout human history, organic food was the only option. It was the diversion of World War II chemicals into pest control products that ramped up industrial agriculture, the foolishness peaking with genetically modified [GM] foods. Instead, we must renew our relationship with what we eat, and create new options to grow, process and share our food.
5] LEARNING is the key to a healthy and happy life.
"We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
The World 5.0 Platform is enabled by learning. Learning is a lifelong process, and creates the wisdom to make wholesome decisions. It is learning that opens pathways to peace, good government, localism and organic food. Learning is a right and a responsibility.
There is a clear path to wisdom. We use data to create information, and amass information to create knowledge and finally we sift our knowledge to find wisdom. This progression guides us to truth, untarnished by anecdotal stories, outlier data or bold-faced lies. This process also leads us to love.
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As we enter 2014, a long but happier road lies before us. We will not quickly undo the damage of the last age, but already we begin. World 5.0 provides a framework for this new way of understanding ourselves, based on the simple recognition that Life IS Now. Indeed, our shared moment is the only reality. It is time we start acting like it, letting go the fear, dogma, attitudes and beliefs that separate us, choosing personal priorities that align with our true selves, and working together in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness as never before.
Again, Life is Now and our only reality. We stand Here together. In all our designs and actions, we intend to create systems which reflect the principles and peace of World 5.0.
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