Let’s remove our blinders and look at our planet as more of an integrated planning system. We must stop conceiving of the world in one way or the other. In other words, the political systems, governments, and businesses should all work together as well as individuals. It appears that by creating named systems like capitalism, democracy, monarchy, communism, socialism, dictatorship, etc, we are neglecting the potential of what we can be in a more integrated holistic functioning. To me, it is not one way or the other. We need to plan things so that our integrated functioning is reasonable, rational, and more nature-like. We need to strive to become more natural functioning because it makes sense in terms of the demonstrative simplicity and efficiency that nature teaches us. In many ways, wild nature functions in ways that minimize waste and create little pollution (except for methane and naturally occurring greenhouse gases or volcanoes). Everything works together and is related to everything else. Wouldn’t it be great to learn this simple lesson about nature and natural functioning and allow ourselves to mimic nature as much as possible while living on our planet? We need to connect with nature in every way and integrate our functioning with that of wild nature because, after all, even though we have become more anthropocentric, more materialistic, and more resource exploitive and polluting over time in every sense of the word, we are still part of nature as well as God. Wouldn’t it be great if we could look at ourselves as the children of Mother Nature and children of God at the same time? I believe nature and God are an integrated concept, not a divisive one or the other. Likewise, I think we ought to extend this concept to include transforming anthropocentric boundaries of counties, states, countries, towns, etc, to a more continuous regional concept, keeping the old borders to identify where you are from from a broad perspective. We know people from Sudan who call themselves Africans, but it is sort of in a transitory region between the continent of Africa and the Middle East region. It gets confusing, but wouldn’t it be great if we all called ourselves Earthlings first? We are all in this together and ought to start functioning together all around the Earth in a well-planned, holistic way with the most responsible, well-intentioned people in positions of integrated, holistic planning. We must look at our planet more continuously and rid ourselves of the perception that everything has to be behind a border or boundary and segmented out from the rest of us. We must eliminate the perception that there is an “us” and a “them.” I favor wilderness because “in wildness is the preservation of the world.”(Thoreau) In other words, I believe we can all function closer to nature while at the same time being relatively speaking part of the wilderness. It is a continuum from more anthropocentric wilderness to natural environment wilderness to natural Earth striving development. In these situations, ecology and geography are very important, as well as all science and other integrated disciplines, especially those that function in a holistic, well-intentioned manner.

The most holistic and well-intentioned human endeavor is educational enlightenment in all its integrated aspects and functioning. Therefore, we must transform ourselves from an out-of-context, segmented, rule and law-based, countrified, insulated, and isolated functioning to that of a well-intentioned sustainable striving and holistically integrated functioning that is based on knowledge acquisition and helping one another learn instead of ultra-competing people to death. We must stop all the fighting, litigiousness, war, crime creation, illness creation, and premature death. We need absolutely everyone on board to do whatever they can to help our planet and people recover from years of degradation, killing, illness, epidemics, and loss of nature. We must transform into an embracing, loving, and caring community for one another at several levels, multi-dimensionally. Even communities should be an ecological niche organization integrated with everything else in nature. They need to work together with everyone else, and all individuals should function in their ecological niche roles on the continuum from more public benefit producing to whatever they want to do in this world to contribute to our collective functioning.