The Economy Will Change When We Create an Environment that Promotes Mutual Guarantee
The key to shifting our relationships in a better direction lies in informing and educating children and adults alike. We must create a change-supportive environment that can help people adjust to the global-integral reality and achieve mutual guarantee among us. As a result, the principle of mutual guarantee will be the basis of all future systems, whether political, social, or economic.
Recent studies [29] have shown that our environments have a critical impact on our values, habits, and even our health. If we build an environment that is integral by nature, we will have a clearer picture of how to shift successfully from the current socioeconomic system, which has inflicted the current crisis upon us, to the new system, based on solidarity, mutual guarantee, and mutual harmony, extending to our dealings with the Earth.
[29] The most notable studies are probably those published in the book, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives—How Your Friends' Friends' Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do, by Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis and Prof. James Fowler (NY: Back Bay Books, 2011), see chapter, “Benefits of the New Economy.”