Abstract
Human civilization has reached the point where it has the capacity to ask, "Where should we go?" and, "Is this all there is?" In order to avoid or adapt to the consequences of resource constraint and climate change, human civilization should first develop and adopt three major changes. First, it should strive to understand the human brain and augment it in such a way so as to avoid short and long term goal misalignment and self delusional thinking. Secondly, it should strive to create a system that will incorporate the will of and educate the entire planetary population in regards to issues regarding our species. Third, it should adopt a policy of population limit and control such that our species is under no fear of resource failure. Only after having adopted these reforms, can our species truly make decisions regarding its future.
Mark P Aldridge