Mark Pol

Tipping point has been reached when there is no way back to a stabilized moment. It is a point of no return. Now we have reached the end of an era, we cannot go back to the old way of living.

Most of us think we have built a civilization which is disappearing at this moment, but we never had a civilization of Man. We have just built a technological civilization with all the technical landscape which surrounds us in today’s society.

 We have reached a tipping point were now all the ice sheets on the poles are disappearing in a dangerous pace. Even the permafrost thaws. Our political systems are collapsing into dangerous fascistic movements while the people in those countries won’t see it happen; maybe they turn a blind eye.

The earth is warming. Massive amount of people are migrating because there is not enough water to grow crops. And because there is no food enough they cannot make a living out of it.

Tipping point is a moment when in a very short time there are big changes taking place. Societies are being shaken up and confused. When we have reached that tipping point, will we be able to transform our economy? In a way that everybody in that society can make a living? Give people a universal basic income, so that if they have no income they still can pay the rent, buy food and pay for the education of their children.

We have to create a society wherein the social and ecology compassion will be central. Do we think that every one of us has a choice? No, sometimes you will be forced to do things which you do not like, because the circumstances dictate it. Now that time has come! We are forced to make choices for the near future to survive as societies and still have a future for our children.

The tipping point or transition is near. Which way the ball is rolling, we just do not know, but we have to know it. And create a vision and policies for the short and long period of time, to control these transitions. The Mules (“Foundation Trilogy” by Isaac Asimov) must be stopped. They will destroy our planet, our economy, our societies and our dreams of the future. And can we also learn from the book “The Human Condition” by Hannah Arendt?

There is still hope in my heart. Hope that we are intelligent animals. The Homo Sapiens created all this technology, but forgot to create a Human. A Human who will be able to revive our lost Paradise. We do live in a Paradise, but somewhere we have lost sight of the beauty of our own planet. Lost sight how we can live as a Human.

Do not let us reach that tipping point ever!