There should be and could be enough to go around if resources were shared fairly. This is not a utopian vision at all. Rather much more common sense that the current model which is trashing the planet and making people feel empty and unfulfilled (as the video states, relative measures of happiness have declined as we have become more and more materialistic as a society since the 1950's)
We really need to scrap the system and start again! Take the fat cats out of the picture, democratise power. Just throw away our need and tolerance for the people who are at the top pulling the strings. We need to reject the version of events and the truth that they present.
This is by no means the only version of reality possible. Think about, it society could be structured and organised in many different ways. I think people forget this, and they call any ideas about change utopian, or unrealistic.
Perhaps this model were in is a real version of a hell like reality, rather than 'the' only reality. It was created, and it can just as easily be changed, with some vision to do so.
If money, or rather the making of money wasn't in the equation it'd be easy enough to solve the problem of resources.
Products can be made to last, rather than fall apart after a few years.
I think the Eden project has a model where things are lent out and shared rather than individually owned.
Scrap the big industries and democratise the control of pharmaceuticals, agriculture and the food industries and the manufacturing of products.
Stop War and the manufacture and investment in weapons.
Put an end to the mindless consumerism and production of materials which is unsustainable.
Stop using unnecessary pollutants and toxins.
Put an end to the mind control of the media.
Stop making people a means of production.
Value community, culture and the arts.
Go back to organic farming, and small business, community models.
Take the politics out of public services which can be operated for the people.
Take the politics out of politics!
Easy enough, it just takes a change of perspective and priorities.
I know it sounds hard to manage without becoming autocratic, but I think there should be an over-arching moral framework and direction behind long term strategies. It's too easy for governments to come in and make arbitrary bad decisions that derail things that should be left alone at best, or improved on.
I think possibly we could do with some kind of over- seeing high moral authority, that looks over what happens globally. and keeps things in line, with no vested interest for themselves. I really don't know how this could work, but I like the idea of people being accountable, and being able to ensure that actions benefit humanity at large, rather than a small few . Some actions that don't serve humanity should just not be allowed to happen at all. It would be easy enough to work out what these actions are by measuring the value in each effect that is caused, with honesty and integrity. If peoples well-being was placed at the very heart of decision making the results we would see would be completely different from reality as we see and experience it now.
Were living in times that are becoming more and more surreal, ever nearer to reaching a crazy crescendo.
Over all though I think we need to have a collective shift. There has to be a shift in consciousness so that new positive humanitarian values reach a point of critical mass, and we start tipping the balance of the scales in the opposite direction.
Only a growing awareness of our shared humanity, mutual inter-dependence and the dignity and inherent value of each person will change the tide. In other words humanistic values.
