what are the roles played by citizen in sustainable development?
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Individuals cannot save this world by its own individual efforts in this natural order domination to save this world but only when all individuals start to join forces to establish a rationalist party and build a rationalist social system to realise rational order-run rational social system, they can succeed.
Establish rationalist theory, organise into a disciplined party, educate people with rationalist theory, action in establish rational social system and run it with rational order.
While leave the natural order to run the social system but individual just picking some rubbishes, plant some trees, save some animals… will never save this world. These are effects. To solve the problem, we have to deal with the fundamental cause: order-system contradiction. And we have to be organised into a disciplined organisation to becoming a political entity.
Depend on individuals to voluntarily act according to individual free choice to do what they can to save this world? No, that wouldn’t work. That is because natural order is the stable behavioural strategy that has natural stability therefore it spontaneously will rule: suppose the whole world is born rationalists but only a few randomly mutated into the little demons of natural order of the everyone act according his best of present individual interest, and if you let them act freely, by time, they will biologically and mentally spread out their genes and meme (their ideology and behavioural strategy) to overrun this world. Don’t even say in reality, it is the natural order is the born absolute majority but the rationalist order practitioners are the absolute minority.
Though the fundamental solution that can solve the problem is to tackle the fundamental system contradiction that require every individual unite in the thoughts and actions in establish rational system and rational process runs in it.
Sustainable development is a rational process that requires downscale economy while upgrade economic rationality level, that means rationally shrink economy and use less resources, produce less products and services, while maximize the production of effective information (discovery, creation, invention).
At the present moment, we can do two things at the same time:
1. Restrict ourselves to live a simple, national, scientific and healthy life style to minimize our resources consumption and pollution. The truth is that it is a good life that suits to anyone: rich, poor or middle if you want to live healthy, live long and happy. Many people are practicing it right now. It is the first generation is the hardest time, after that, situations will get better and better.
2. And in the meantime unite our thoughts and actions to create this rational system and force the rational process into running it. Because it is not a natural process and it doesn’t spontaneously happen, it needs human rational thinking directed rational effort to actuate it and maintain it.
It is very difficult thing to do. It is not natural, it is rational. Maybe even the most powerful organization in the world will find it very difficult to achieve. However this thing not only need rational thinking but also power. These two things must unite to even try to start this process.
When people’s opinions are prepared and the organization be united under the rationalist principles --- actually we have to create a new organisation (rationalist party) which is dedicated to practice rational order and establish rational social system but not addicted to vested interest that depend on natural order to maintain.
Therefore, the only individual action that can save this world is to establish and join your local rationalist party branch and act according rationalist party principles to struggle for human endless future.