Let us start with the presupposition that all of the observable universe is made up of the same substance; atoms. Through this material and a very long amount of time, it has created vessels not only with consciousness, but with the ability to have awareness of this consciousness. We exist as cells of the human organism, which is a cell in the earth organism (Gaia), and so on and so forth into larger scale relationships. We are all one being. We need to get past the "I" generation. Yes we each experience life from a unique perspective, but so does every other one of us.
Our species has been working, living, and "progressing" quite unconsciously since our first society, and from a Cosmic perspective we are relatively young. So we fucked up a littlebit on our path, who wants to spend their time crying over nuked cities, extinct species, and a little spilt oil? its part of our evolutionary process. I liken the founding of America as the beginning Humanities "Teenage" years. This is a very important time period because what we do now, will determine if we destroy ourselves and die, or evolve and THRIVE. We have to fail, inorder to learn, to live, to win, to truly be able to love.
We now live in an age where our pre-technological societies are stagnating and crumbling while scientific advancement is shooting headlong into the future. We need to do away with the old way of running things. The way in which we thought and acted which created our problems, cannot be upheld to correct them. We need a new system which cultivates fully conscious individuals. Which empowers every individual to achieve their best and to work WITH others, rather than this illusion of you VS me.
At the same time we need to halt futher scientific "progress" because we are not truly progressing. To progress we need to create a new infrastructure. A new way of living which not only works with nature, but ENHANCES it. If humanity is in its Teenage years, Petrol, sweet, sweet, oil, is our addiction of choice: our will to death. We need to do away with it completely, we need to re-evaluate our universe and break the habit of every civilization before us: the reliance on ONE main resource for everything. This worked in the past for smaller civilizations, but never for too long. Population growth always grew exponentially greater while the resource dwindled. So INSTEAD we need utilize a wider array power sources. As to decentralize the stress upon the planet.(To take a side note here, I think there is a great secret hidden within the forces of magnetism, gravity, and whatever allows electricity to function, which could completely revolutionize humanities power sources).
