How To Save The World
1) How to end Poverty.
There was a time when a certain section of the society had to be poor to serve the rest of the society. The technology of today can do the work that used to be done by the poor section of the society. Accordingly, the multiplication of the poor no longer serves its purpose. No person need pass on a poor lifestyle to his or her offspring. We can end Poverty.
Financial security as a condition for any person to become a father or mother would ensure that all offspring hence born would be financially secure. This would ensure education, healthcare, proper nutrition and shelter for these offspring, which would in turn, ensure protection from Poverty for the offspring. Since we would require the same financial security requirement from these offspring, if they wish to become parents when they are adults, their offspring would be immune to Poverty, too. In this manner we would have successfully eradicated Poverty.
2) How to save the Environment.
The reason why the Environment and consequently our survival as a race is under threat is that the earth is running out of resources to support our multiplying numbers. We know that its the poorest parts of the earth whose populations are the most difficult to contain. The poorest populations continue to triple each decade. Besides using more of the earth’s resources, they also will use the cheapest fuels and machines, which are also the most polluting. They will be unable to uphold environmental norms, because they cannot afford to. Laws or directives passed to enforce environmental standards may work to an extent in rich countries, but in poor countries, they are ineffectual.
To save the environment, then, the sensible thing to do would be to stop the multiplication of poor, who cannot maintain environmental standards, rather than keep passing new environmental laws that cant be enforced.
The poor can reach a certain financial status at any time in their life, after which they cannot be considered poor. They are not doomed to live all their life as poor people. Once they reach that certain financial status, they can be allowed to multiply, because then they would be of less harm to the environment as they can then afford environmental protection measures. They would be able to afford the machines, fuels and technologies certified to be environmentally safe. If they don’t use these environmentally safe fuels, machines and technologies as required by environmental laws, when they can afford it, then the law would be quite justified in punishing them, too.
But instead, if the poor multiply and continue to be a significant portion of the earth’s population, who cannot use anything but the cheapest and most polluting machines and fuels, in order to survive, the destruction of the environment will continue and we will be left helpless to save the environment.
If and when the poor person reaches a certain financial status, at any time of his life, at which time he is no longer considered poor, only then should that person attain the right to produce offspring. Then the poor will no longer be multiplying. Offspring hence born, would be born to people with enough financial security to live in an environmentally safe manner. These offspring would both learn the environmentally friendly lifestyle from their parents and be able to afford such a lifestyle. The financial security of their parents would ensure education, healthcare and proper nutrition to the offspring, which would in turn, ensure that the offspring wouldn’t be forced into poverty.
If all nations on earth would require financial security as a precondition for becoming a parent, environmentally hazardous machines, fuels and technologies that are commonplace today, could become things of the past. Environmentally friendly fuels, machines and technologies, though comparatively more expensive, could be made the standard. This is how we can save the environment.
How wonderful it would be to see the earth returning to equilibrium as the burden on its resources starts reducing with the end of the multiplication of the poor! How much more safer would we feel in this world! Fewer people would have diseases caused due to pollution. Most importantly, the earth would stop retaliating with earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and other natural calamities.
3) How to eliminate disease and illness.
Certain diseases can affect you even if you lived in a safe and clean environment, had perfect nutrition and were vaccinated against preventable diseases. But since most diseases are preventable, you could avoid them if you lived in healthy conditions. In the same manner, if the whole world lived in healthy conditions, we could eliminate all preventable diseases. For that to happen, every household needs money. Money is needed to protect the members of the household from disease and illness. Money is needed to live in a safe and clean environment.
If we ensure that no one becomes a parent unless they have attained financial security, we can be sure that the next generation will not be forced to contract preventable diseases and illnesses. We can be sure that the next generation will have access to the means to prevent and fight disease and illness.
With this step, we would be gradually eliminating diseases and illnesses that are preventable, leaving more resources, money, time and energy to spend on finding cures or preventive measures for incurable diseases. In time, we could hence achieve a disease-free world.
4) How to eliminate crime.
Many things cause crime: Hatred, poverty, envy, revenge, etc. Two things can prevent it: Better security for oneself and the end of poverty.
If everyone were financially secure, there would be far less crime since people could both protect themselves from crime and avoid situations where they may be forced to commit a crime.
Since most people in the world are not financially secure, those who follow moral values or fear the law are usually the ones who do not commit crime. Most people are willing to take chances with the law or to bend their principles.
If everyone was made financially secure, on the one hand inequalities would be reduced in all matters, reducing the need to commit crime, and on the other hand personal security would be greater, reducing the possibility of a successful crime.
We could make everyone financially secure by requiring financial security as a necessary condition for anyone to become a parent. That would ensure that everyone born in future will be born into financially secure environments where they can develop into adults unthreatened by poverty, who can both secure themselves against crime and not have to commit any crime themselves. In this manner we could eliminate crime from countries and from the world itself.
5) How to control the world population.
Every human being is worthy of honorable treatment. He or she deserves to have his or her basic needs met and have access to the means to personal growth and productivity. We have an advancing technology to achieve this today, on the one hand. But on the other hand we have a growing population. The latter overwhelms us so much that the former is proving inadequate, making honorable treatment for every individual impractical. Hence the latter has to be controlled. The world population has to be controlled because we cannot both meet the basic needs of the individual and provide access to the means to his or her personal productivity and growth, which he or she rightly deserves.
The solution is to ensure that it is possible not only to meet the basic needs of a human but also to provide access to the means to personal productivity and growth. We can ensure that this is possible before a person is born if we required financial security by law to become a parent. This would ensure honorable treatment for the child to be born. This would ensure that the basic needs of the child born are met and that the child will have access to the means to personal productivity and growth. This would ensure not just survival, but also personal growth and productivity, through honorable treatment. This would also ensure that not more humans are born than the ones to which the right conditions for growth and productivity are available. This would ensure that not more humans are born than can be sustained by the existing technology and earth resources, hence controlling world population. This is how we can control the world population.
Excerpt from Message of the Perfect World