Unpredictable fluctuations prompt more and more people to ask whether today's unstable and inequitable financial system could be replaced with a system where money is used to enhance life and well-being, rather than to make more money. A " green economy" offers far-sighted entrepreneurs new ways to grow by shifting to less wasteful and hazardous forms of resource production and use. Sociologist, writer, co-founder of WorldShift International May 19, 2011, 07:36 AM EDT Updated This post was published on the now-closed HuffPost Contributor platform. The dangers are now evident, and also the opportunities are becoming visible. The silver lining at the edge of the gathering clouds is what the Chinese had long known but we have all but forgotten: crisis is both danger and opportunity. Yet living in a crisis-ridden world has its positive side. Growing waves of migrants move from social and political hot-spots and ecologically threatened areas toward relatively stable and prosperous regions, where they stress society and overload the economy and the ecology. Grassroots movements to overthrow dictators and power-elites are sweeping Africa and are spreading to Asia and Latin America. Social structures are breaking down in countries both developed and developing, and inequality and injustice, exposed by global flows of information, fuel resentment and revolt.In its present form the global financial system is entirely untenable, yet bankers and politicians still try to stabilize it. In its search for markets and profits, mainstream businesses feed people's appetite for resource consumption, pushing one natural resource after another past peek production into decline. Despite great advances in the technologies of production and distribution, the gap is growing between rich and poor.
Find signed collectible books: WorldShift 2012: Making Green Business. There is unsustainability in the economy. Obstacles to the New International Economic Order (9780080259703) by Laszlo.The way we pollute the air is not sustainable either: it would soon present serious health hazards especially in urban and industrial agglomerations. A growing population with growing per capita resource consumption is rapidly depleting the vital resources of the planet. The way we withdraw and consume water, manage our productive lands and the resources of the sea, cannot be prolonged for long. There is unsustainability in the ecology.This book presents clear evidence of this connectedness and describes the tools we need to make our world greener and our planet safer as we strive to realize the holistic consciousness of connection through the Akashic field. Change on this level calls for a profound shift in consciousness and a clear understanding that-as cutting-edge physics shows-we are truly connected with each other and with the cosmos. We have an opportunity to move from the current political and business model of grow or die to a sustainable world respectful of human beings, nature, and the planet. He shows how we can replace the limited consciousness of our failing society with the holistic consciousness that is reflected in the unified field of quantum physics: the Akashic field. We see three core components to achieving this broad goal, specifically to a) better understand the nature of consciousness b) investigate how consciousness relates to ourselves and the. In WorldShift 2012, Ervin Laszlo brings together insights for creating sustainable positive change from spiritual leaders, scientists, and visionary businesspeople-people such as Albert Einstein, Mohammad Yunus, Václav Havel, Eckhart Tolle, Ken Wilber, David Korten, Paul Hawken, and Tomoyo Nonaka, former CEO of Sanyo Electronics. The International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) is a consortium of individuals from all walks of life, united within a shared passion: understanding consciousness for a better tomorrow. But with great danger comes great opportunity-the opportunity for fundamental change that will transform our societies from top to bottom. A handbook for conscious change that could transform the current world crisis into planetary renewal Outlines the problems that make todays world prone to breakdown and suggests actions we must adopt in politics, business, and everyday life Replaces the limited consciousness of our failing society with the holistic consciousness that is rooted in the Akashic field The deepening economic crisis and the threat posed by climate change and other social and ecological trends has caused many to despair.
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