Manifesto on a Worldview Environmental Revolution

The second volume of the EuRICAA – A Worldview Environmental Revolution project is based on an analysis of the social aspect of the global environmental crisis and sheds light on an essentially new approach to resolving humanity’s ongoing problems, which are bourgeoning with each passing year.

The first volume, EuRICAA – A Model for the World’s Future, focuses on the need to prepare society for major changes aimed at preventing an environmental disaster by coordinating joint efforts to develop a Green economy and building a single global mega infrahighway with the aid of modern environmental innovations. The contents of the first volume are based on a factual analysis of the current deplorable state of the planet. The second volume of the EuRICAA project presents a detailed plan for creating a society of social change – it gives a graphic illustration of the main human “diseases” of the 21st century and sets forth standards for spearheading a new qualitative model of social development. The transition to a new Green economy requires ensuring environmental security for the future and demonstrates the need to carry out a technological revolution. The developed countries, which will act as platforms for creating and introducing the necessary technologies, must play a fundamental role in this transition – a new global agreement must be drawn up and signed that will change the rules regulating investments, as well as the subsidies issued for innovations, in order to establish this new type of economy in the developing countries. The concept of economic success must be re-examined and brought into harmony with economic growth rates, as well as effectual, rather than declarative, environmental protection measures.

Many national governments have been actively discussing topics that address the secure future of our planet for more than forty years now, which is demonstrated by the annual budget increase on environmental spending (see, Appendix 1). However, the attempts to change and reform the worldview of the planet’s population, as well as advance the idea of anti-consumerism, aimed at overcoming society’s main problem—information overload and resource consumption—have failed. People today are primarily motivated by their desire for personal material and financial gain, as well as striving for a prominent position in “the surreal world of signs” that are supposed to bring social prestige and happiness, rather than endeavoring to ensure environmental security for a harmonious present and future.

Most social and economic problems can be resolved by generating a significant decrease in overconsumption and reorienting people toward new and real values. The creation of a civil society, in which human happiness and fulfillment do not depend on consumption and consumption is no longer the be-all and end-all of life, frequently requires decisive, if not to say radical, shifts in personal consciousness, as well as at the national level.

EuRICAA – A Worldview Environmental Revolutionprovides everyone with an opportunity to evaluate the current state of the human community, as well as the effects produced by its daily impact on the environment, and to experience their need to have a personal influence on the global crisis situation.

Coordinating the new civilizational standards will be an urgent task at the global level, whereby their adoption and introduction will serve a vitally important purpose—protecting the Earth and preserving humanity’s future.