[Freelancer]

Wow this thread is a excellent example of going off track. The original question was 'how can we save the world' and here we are discussion whether the world needs to be saved, reality and various belief systems. In essence we have digressed the discussion into something that well can't be resolved, after all some belief in subjective reality, others in objective reality, others in positive thinking, others in .... well you get the point.

A better question to ask that might get a better response is;
What can we do to make the world a better place for everyone?

The only belief you need for that is; There is a world and we can improve it. Thats something I think most people can agree with...


So how do we go about that ahum little mission?

I'd say we first need to define the problems in the world, since I never watch any tv this is a tough step for me haha. In general people are quite good at listing the negatives so I'll just give a few off the top of my head;
- Hunger
- Pollution
- Stress
- Crime

Thats just a quick list right there, what I personally noticed is that one factor can really affect each section and that is nutrition. I truly belief that many people do not know how much nutrition affects the world in many different ways.

A couple of things that nutrition affects;
Crime;
There have been a few researches that have shown there is a link between criminal behavior and nutritional habits. Often young criminals have a horrible diet of sugar and fast food that is messing up there brain chemistry. This inbalance means they are often tired, can't concentrate properly and have many health issue's as well. Also a few researchers found that bad eating habits often result in criminal behavior. I haven't studied this a lot but it seems to make sense. The people from the lower social class are often the ones who have horrendous eating habits (overweight, sickly and tired). While the more wealthy and healthy class often has decent to good eating habits. Note this is from personal experience.
Hunger
As far as I know there have been several studies that showed that if we drop meat as a global food this pretty much get solved. I don't know the exact numbers but large numbers of plant food is needed to get the meat we eat. Also the fear of vegetariens has to stop, it is not a dangerious lifestyle at all. Problematic in this department is once again lack of knowledge and willingness to change there eating habits.
Pollution
A lot of our pollution is coming from the animals we raise for food purposes. If we can limit our meat intake we can also limit the pollution we generate. Again I haven't done any extensive research in this department so I can't point to articles for information.

To me changing the eating habits of people can have a major impact on the world in many ways. Just a suggestion though...