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Across the globe there are many environmental problems and reasons for them. They all, however, stem from a single source. Nevertheless, relatively few individuals are intellectual or intuitive enough to see beyond the numerous apparent causes to the single root cause which rests within the mental state of humanity where particular mainstream beliefs are at issue.

To solve all our environmental (and other) personal and global problems we need a change in our basic belief system. A particular kind of change in a person's perception will ultimately result in a willing discontinuance of actions which are harmful to the environment. This requires a conceptual leap, a paradigm shift, a shift in your perception of reality and your place in that reality. A kind of global revolution in thought is required. This kind of shift needs to happen everywhere, in the US, and especially in the major developing countries such as Brazil, India, and China, for example, so that global catastrophe is averted. Massive efforts of great intensity to awaken large segments of every country's population—as being attempted by EN—will be required. This kind “of complete re-education” of the individual is possible in time if we apply ourselves with benevolent fortitude and patience, spreading new knowledge as we must.

What do we have in history to compare such a required revolution to? The creation of the United States of America holds clues because its democracy and economic success mushroomed into a global era of advance f or humanity similar to what needs to be achieved now. To trigger such a development there must be a cause and a spark to light “the firestorms of rapid change.” Let's look at what that key element was in the case of the formation of the new republic, America.