Changing the World through a shared Cosmology

There is a profound connection between the enornous global problems we are facing today and the fact that most people have no accurate understanding on the full big picture.

We simply don't know how we fit into the Universe. We don't get what the scientific cosmic discoveries mean for us, in our lives, on an emotional level. But we need to understand this big picture, because otherwise this disconnect is ever going to be more severe.

The biggest problem facing us today is not how to save the world. We know technologically much of what needs to be done and a lot that could be done today.

The biggest question facing us today is, what can possibly motivate people to change enough, fast enough, to do enough.

Have a look at that amazingly insightful speach of Joel R Primack from the University of California in Santa Cruz and his wife Nancy Ellen Abrams, which should allow you to see that you and all of us fit into the newly emerging scientific picture of the universe in an astonishing way.

In the new picture of the universe, we humans are central or special in surprising ways:

• Our bodies are at the midpoint of all possible sizes.
• We are made of the rarest material in the universe.
• We live in the middle of the best period for life on Earth.

If we would start to think and act from this new perspective, we could solve the worst global problems.

(For additional information about the work of Joel R Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams visit their website new-universe.org)