Recently the annual IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was published. It shows that 70 percent of identified plants, 35 percent of invertebrates, 37 percent of freshwater fish, 30 percent of amphibians, 28 percent of reptiles, and 12 percent of birds are under threat. The survival of a total of 17,921 species is in jeopardy. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

We humans are causing the sixth mass extinction, with more than a hundred species becoming extinct per day. We have created the global problematique, with population explosion (a 50 percent increase is expected worldwide in several decades), habitat devastation, environmental pollution, resource exhaustion, climate change, desertification, and wars all intertwined. We face ecological and economic collapse, twin human-centered devastations that have become the ego-logical problematique of our age.

This is due to our karma. Most advanced in selfishness, societies, statuses, symbolism, and sciences, humankind is acting as a cancer, causing both the host and the hosted to collapse. We have become so self-centered (short-sighted and short-circuited) that we can’t see the whole. We are like blind men touching only a small part of an elephant. Our fractured minds reflect imperfectly, are illuminated only in part, like a crescent moon.

But if we still our karma — seeing and becoming truth, like a tree — we can solve global suffering. When our mind mirrors are crystal clear we reflect each other limitlessly and we become fully integrated into the global life system. We can really see and understand the interrelatedness of our Indra-net world, where clear crystal balls (people, plants, planet, genes, genders, generation) reflect each other infinitely.

When we understand that our ocean-like life is interdependent and integrated with all throughout space and time, then, quite naturally, we act accordingly. We can save and sustain the universal life system with our own safe and simple life (Global System’s 5S: Systemic, Sustainable, Saving, Safe, Simple).

All religions aim at reunion with holiness (wholesome whole) from selfishness (separated self). But religious and non-religious people alike can work for a global ethic, truth, and peace (Global Ethic’s 5L: Law, Life, Love, Liberation, Lielessness). We can walk step by step in our life in information and material handling (Information’s 5A: Access, Assess, Agree, Act, Advise; Material’s 5R: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rearrange, Restore).

For more details on the Global Problematique, System, and Ethic, and on practical steps outlined in 5S, 5L, 5A, and 5R, click here.