The new coronavirus global pandemic with its variants,  has exposed major problems with our family and public health systems, and social, educational, political and economic infrastructures, which if not addressed and resolved at the earliest will ensure the destruction of everything we hold dear and believe in, during this crisis and for sure when the next one strikes, harming the future for generations to come.

You and most people ask how we ended up in this situation, with over100 million infected,  over two million dying before their time, survivors having long-term health issues, and every person worried about the future?  Simultaneously domestic violence, trafficking, inequality & inequity rose! Three principles we've carved and structured our lives around need to be understood.

When our life goals are founded on the three principles of: instant gratification, segmentation of people, and an unawareness of our connectivity within our species and ecosystem,  if any part of the triad is threatened we unleash the perfect storm.

But what about our habits, lifestyles, livelihoods and dreams? What do we really want? Are our desires getting the better of our needs? What do we really need?

Healthy Stress-Free Quality Life?

Every person wishes for a safe, healthy and stress-free comfortable life for themselves and loved ones. For generations, we've been  taught that a good job would be our vehicle to make these dreams a reality, but instead today amid the global crises, we find ourselves oppressed and  enslaved by the system.  Surprisingly lockdowns have forced families together and unleashed spates of gender based and domestic violence even in the face of a raging pandemic!

Perhaps some of us are beginning to rethink life as we know it: our childhood dreams, teen years, education, training,  adulthood, work, life goals, desires and aspirations. Perhaps we are self-realizing and thinking of  actively molding a world where we can truly be safe, healthy and stress free as we enjoy high quality of life long-term within a regenerating planet.

But how do we strive for a better quality life and future?

If we focus on the long-term  health, well being  and quality of life of each person and our planet, we prevent man-made disasters like this systemic mutating virus, violence, inequality and inequity.

And when a natural disaster like a tsunami occurs, we are able to unite, overcome and rise like a phoenix.  Sustainable development is about the phoenix rising: a lifestyle and life mission based on intelligently, consciously caring for and supporting all of life in its diverse form such that life sustains itself without much effort.

Humans don't exist independently, and therefore we must live in harmony with our immediate family, communities, countries and our entire planet. If we don't, then lockdowns will become routine when we enter the looming crisis of climate change. Violence and depression will be uncontrollable, and no medication nor vaccine will be able to save us.

Our way forward is to skill and train ourselves to engage in wholesome jobs to regenerate our health and the health and wellbeing  of our communities and diverse species we live among, in an environment with clean energy,  air, water and land.