Review Question

As income gaps, food supply, climate change, political disruptions to supply chains, war, aging populations, and lower birth rates all threaten existing survival systems, new policies, and educational initiatives must be established to enable and empower people to meet basic human needs by learning to live differently with new knowledge and skills, both physical and psycho-social.

This form of education is personal, as opposed to professional, and it determines the life long health and safety of individual and family life, and it maintains national workforce productivity. However, school systems do not prioritize it, preferring instead to meet employers’ needs, not the needs of a whole person during the educational years before transitioning to adult independence.

This imbalance will generate greater social costs for governments to meet food insecurity, homelessness, sickness, and more social and political fragmentation. When people become survival-threatened, they are more prone to extreme perspectives driven by fear.