To be able to think globally about sustainability, it is key to think in terms of humanity’s ecological footprint and earth biocapacity. When we do so, we realize that achieving global sustainability is about integrating our planetary limits.
We can’t solve a problem if we do not understand it’s nature and scale. The global crisis of sustainability that the human species is facing is multifactorial. This must be understood if we want to successfully achieve the sustainable transition.
All these factors of unsustainability are interdependent and interconnected, which means that one cannot be addressed without addressing the other. In order to be able to have an impact on all these interconnected factors simultaneously, it is key to identify their commonalities. What we found is that all these factors are of unsustainability are the consequences of human patterns. If we want to resolve the problem and achieve sustainability, these patterns must be identified and addressed.
The ABC method is an easy tool to understand and change individual behavior. We have taken a big step back and applied at the collective level to understand what drive human patterns. What we found is that human unsustainable behaviors are the result of a very grim history in which our ancestors learn to struggle to survive. The learned ruthless behaviors driving this primal survival have destructive consequences that are amplified with exponential technological progress.
New World Together breakthrough findings do not only expose the nature of these increasingly unsustainable ways of functioning, but also their past origins and hidden root causes. Doing so, they offer us new potentials to not only overcome our existential challenges, but to turn them into opportunities for evolution.