One important factor which more and more politicians or financial experts recognize is that the present global crisis is not really a crisis, not even depression but it is a system failure.
We are many times forgetting that we are in an evolutionary process, and just because recently humanity felt that we achieved very good living standards, and at least in the developed world most people felt good in their skins before 2008, it does not mean evolution has stopped. Moreover although we like to think this way, humans are not above the vast natural system we exist in, but we are simply a single species in it, the continuing change of the system around us continuously affects us.
The recent large natural catastrophes reminded us how helpless we are in the face of those forces we cannot even comprehend.
So if we want to solve our present problems we have to understand some important points:
1. We do not have historical perspective on the present crisis, because we are in a situation we have never been before.
2. We are not in a crisis that could be corrected by known economical, financial or political means, but we are in a system failure, as our present constant growth, overproduction/over-consumption model has become unsustainable, moreover it has started self destructing. The same drive that gave us all our achievements through our history became a cancer destroying the whole system. None of the basic principles of a constant growth expansive system exist any more, no free markets, no strong and confident costumer base, the mass hypnotic media and marketing system brainwashing people to keep buying products they do not need for money they do not have is falling apart, and the public is becoming more mature and has become fully aware of the false system they have been living in, and we are fast depleting all our resources.
3. With all our present attitude and behavior we are in complete opposition with the vast natural system around us, and as with our global organization and population growth we achieved a certain saturation, today we are directly in crisis with Nature which turns back on us with its force. While the whole system thrives for an overall balance and homeostasis we with our fragmented, competitive, exploitative attitude are going against it.
Our next moves need to be based on the above, we need to update ourselves the whole population about the true factors influencing our lives, what it means we live in a closed, integral and interdependent world, thus we can prepare the people to the transition to the necessity and resource based life that is required for our survival.
Only a factual, transparent and scientific global education program can create a situation where people join a new system willingly without coercion, also such an education program could prevent global scale rioting and revolutions due to the continually worsening living conditions. Based on such information we can clearly show people without further political trickery that we have unlimited potential a,d a bright sustainable future as long as we keep ourselves to the natural laws governing our system.
And we can only achieve this with mutual responsibility and taking into consideration each and every element of our global system.