A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed.
It would be too easy to just record that the future was going to get better for humanity and the planet; but I need to give some history of the Covid era from the 2020s to 2040, to help you fully appreciate the barbarity that policies and economic control that had finally driven the transformation during the Covid era. By 2025, even as the world had slowly begun to change for the better during a chaotic time, the post-effects of the Covid pandemic had caused a record 350 million people in more than 79 countries to face acute food insecurity – Undernutrition (starvation). Even in that wealthiest of countries – the United States – more than 34 million were also facing food insecurity. Overall, there were nearly a billion people worldwide that were fighting to survive in famine-like conditions. Despite the amount of food availability worldwide, global economic policies were in place that prevented the transportation of food to those who desperately needed it.
This was accentuated further by the barbaric policies to maintain control and obscene profits by keeping food prices high. We had an inhuman food distribution system. The controllers even burned mountains of food rather than lose profits. And to add to this obscenity, even though there was technically enough food, we now know that most of it was had been scientifically corrupted to cause chronic health problems and even chronic malnutrition. Besides the fact that a billion people were malnourished through undernutrition, the wealthy countries with higher calorie diets were also showing malnutrition because of processed food diets engineered to create deficiencies in vital vitamins and minerals. This had been a leading cause of global ill-health from which the allopathic ‘sick-care’ systems of the time also profited that afflicted another 5 billion people. Pharmaceutical drugs with their many side-effects to which so many were trapped and vilification of western naturopathic medicine accessed by only a minority led to further degradation of human health. And on top of all of this decades old harm from toxins, adverse events from the Covid era jabs added to the global misery of hundreds of millions.
During the great protests in the 2020s, people all over the world marched in protests at many governmental policies that served only to keep the food policies of rationing and supplier profit in place. What finally awakened many was the realization that it wasn’t actually the governments that drove these policies. A leading thinker of his time, Vaclav Havel in the 1980s said it succinctly: “Who’s in charge? Politicians tell us that if we are unhappy with the way we are ruled then we can express our displeasure at the polls, or even run for office. But this is to assume that the democratic ideal is the best way to return freedom to an unfree world. This is to overlook the corrupting influence of state power. This to forget that the massive bureaucratic class that operates many of the levers of government is not replaced through elections. And finally, this is to assume that state power is the solution to what ails society. Perhaps state power is the poison that is destroying it.”
The recognition that a Cabalistic global elite were at the heart of global problems started many on an unusual path to sovereignty – people simply went local and started ignoring governmental mandates and controlling policies. In most countries the armed forces, long the enforcement arm of such tactics that had caused totalitarian regimes of the past, even joined in with the people to support more humane policies. There were of course some countries that had totalitarian rulers to control their populations. But even these countries quickly changed once parallel societies had been set up that caused the weight of the uncaring rulers to collapse under their own excesses of control. The endless wars that had driven such hatred, fear, and alienation for so much of humanities existence were seen as systems of power and control and people all over the world finally said ‘No’ More.” The ideologies of patriotic nationalism that allowed such systems were left behind as people focused on a transformation path that seemed more hopeful for well-being. By the late 2030s, the world was already a different place than the Covid era.
The top-down control that had allowed the Cabal and the Transnational Corporations (TNCs) to dominate since the 1970s started crumbling, but that also created supply chain shortages that drove even more localization. The mid-2020s to late 2030s was a truly chaotic and complex time, but as we now know, was a time of hope and faith in a brighter future. It wasn’t that times were remotely perfect during the transition, but the promise of a better future was a more hopeful incentive than the wreckage of a failed past.
I like to believe that the transformation was one of people everywhere have adult conversations as my parents liked to call them where people would openly discuss and debate issues freely. Before the sustainability transformation, the powers that be, had manipulated a destructive worldview that forced people to be alienated from each other. People were pushed into creating little tribal groups of all kinds. It was a time when ‘woke’ people that were highly aware of social injustice and discrimination fueled righteous indignation and victimhood. It was a time when any discourse was difficult – It was a ‘If you don’t agree with me, you must be cancelled (Cancel culture, also known as call-out culture, is a phenomenon in which those who are deemed to have acted or spoken in an unacceptable manner are ostracized, boycotted or shunned). Woke originally meant you were awake to social injustice, but became a worldview for totalitarian minded power brokers. We awakened to the need to talk and debate openly and to come to consensus instead of fighting each other. When we did, we realized just how much we all agreed with each other and that diversity and differences were actually a huge benefit to our peaceful survival, not a reason for fighting.
Once we stopped looking at each other as competitors and starting collaborating we started asking questions. It’s amazing that once you start to question everything you gain a greatly clarity and a broader perspective of everything. For one we saw that technology in which we had placed so much faith before the Covid era, was that our technology moved faster than our morality. While there were many things we now saw with a new light, it was food and health issues that dominated our thinking since they were the issues that were so ‘in our face’ at the time.
While globally more than 70% of the planets farming was still small farms, the bulk of global food was dominated by a destructive industrial agricultural system, and a processed food system making us and the planet sick. Once the TNCs started failing we were all faced with food shortages and health-care issues that had to be tackled locally. I recall my father being contacted by many local village and town leaders asking for advice on helping tackle the problems. He and many of his sustainability colleagues now became major leaders in helping educate people in organic agriculture and sustainable living.
And with the allopathic medical system facing major shortages of pharmaceutical drugs, the osteopathic and naturopathic medical healers were enlisted by the hospitals to ‘cope’ with the ‘pandemic’ of the chronically ill that seemed beyond the allopathy ability to treat. What would become the precursor of our modern twenty second century health-care was a greater focus on Health through nutrition and the destressing of our way of life through a more spiritual lifestyle connected to each other and the natural world. The health benefits of community were well known from classic research cases like the Roseto effect.
Our historians record that by 2040 we were able to reverse and save hundreds of millions from chronic health, but we still grieve at the losses of so many that died in their prime years. The healing of the air, water, soils and natural world from the ravages of the industrial pre-Covid times is still with us with in the twenty second century, and the oceans may take more centuries yet, but we are getting to a global healing.
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