Are Our Current Belief Systems Appropriate for a Warming World? A Better Philosophy for the 21st Century

By Charles Drace

We've inherited many belief systems based on different religions but all influence us to think that Mankind can and should control the world's environment. This has contributed to the greatest threat we all face now, global warming, not to mention the range of social and economic problems we now face. To cope with global warming we need a new belief system unrelated to current religions, creeds, or even political beliefs. We can find clues to a belief system for a warming world by looking at a combination of ancient Vedic thought combined with quantum atomic theory. This book explores these clues and posits a simple but all-encompassing belief system that embraces the needs of the environment and the people in it and the needs of all people to feel some comfort with facing and dealing with global warming.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Socrates Ltd
• Release date: Mar 13, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224532551

Book preview

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

- John Muir, Scottish-born American naturalist, writer and advocate for forests.

Most of us now know, or will soon become aware, that we have passed the point of no return in our current global heating and climate emergency.

We can probably date the point of no return to the end of 2015 when world temperatures reached 1 degree above pre-industrial levels. Coincidentally, the same time as the Paris Climate Change Conference.

We are aware, or will soon become aware, that the melting of the Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Greenland ice sheet has become irreversible and that the melting of the tundra, releasing carbon dioxide and methane, has become irreversible. We are also aware that governments worldwide are not taking effective and significant actions to reduce greenhouse gases that are necessary to slow down global heating.

Many climate activists and scientists have realised that we cannot stop global heating - but we can slow it down enough to allow our children and grandchildren a chance at a decent life - a life not filled with fear and danger.

We are becoming aware that the reason governments are not taking appropriate actions is that the greenhouse gas emitting industries of the world have more effect on government policies than the