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What results is the increase in goods that altogether definitely contribute to a better quality of life. This mechanism is continuously improved along the way and from this process our lives become more and more commonplace. It's no wonder that the world that surrounds us is gloomier and gloomier. Instead it would be more desirable if history developed in just the opposite way. The present crisis that involves each of us is due to those impulses that push humanity to leap towards the next level of evolution: from the current one, based on the individuality of nations, to the next one, which is probably transnational and international. The world is giving birth to a new model of life: "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" [2]; "Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch" [3]. As in any birth, the new world order causes labor pains: the crises in progress are the symptoms. Studying the economic development and the evolutionary phases of man, we can note that the moment that signals a change of a system of life has had a K constant in common with all the other passages in history. This K constant is recognizable in resources. Generally in a society where resources abound, there is no development, and life proceeds at an ever faster rate of consumption of the available assets. As soon as the resources begin to become scarce, a new climate of preoccupation takes over and leads individuals to first struggle to hoard for social economic survival, and then to understand how this situation began. It's just through these difficulties and sufferings that a new process of maturation initiates and leads society to vibrate in order to make it "leap forward". (15:1) In this way relationships change between individuals and the society, between the society and the environment, between the community and the economy, between consumption and resources. In this way, during a certain lapse of time, society modifies previous laws and finds solutions to problems, making the whole society move forward one level. The personal history of an individual is not very different from the history of society. In both cases the absence of problems marks amorphous periods, while crisis signals inventive periods. Primitive people, for example, were involved in hunting and began to work the land only to satisfy their pressing need for food. Lacking rational organization and planning, animals and eatable plants became more and more scarce; indiscriminate exploitation caused scarcity of resources which resulted in a crisis that forced them to try out new systems so that, little by little, agriculture and cooperation among villages replaced the system based on the individual and founded on hunting. The same occurred in other societies with different social organizations. Past history shows that big changes occurred not after the establishment of a situation of abundance, but as the consequence of dissipation of existing resources. Exactly as it happens today. In fact our twenty first century society is coming out of a period of extreme waste of resources and is entering a period of enormous scarcity. During the last 50 years the advanced masses of humanity have wasted large quantities of energy and resources at an insane rate, very often it has been useless consumption as an end in itself. Today we are, on the threshold of the third millenium, in a transitional period. Problems are overwhelming a humanity that finds it difficult to come up with a suitable solution.
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