For one who is born into a consumer-oriented environment, a change to a balanced society, the cessation of producing redundant products, and a relinquishing of shopping as the favorite pastime may be seen as a bleak forecast, as economic and cultural regressions. Economists might argue that the global GDP will drop and with it governments’ ability to care for the needs of their citizens.
However, with the help of a broad educational framework, including the dissemination of information and the creation of a change-supportive environment, we will learn the new rules of the game in the global and integral world. Finally, we will understand that abandoning over-consumption in favor of a balanced version is not only an imperative process, but an irreversible one. Closing the gap between the way we live and the dependence among all of us in the new world will have many positive social and economic effects. The current method has collapsed, and the global crisis is indisputable evidence of that. And finally, a new, balanced world is rising.