How we can save us and our planet
Why today everything we do for the planet is helpless - and how we change that
12.05.2025 23 min
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In this podcast I express my concern that we are heading towards a dystopian future due to a survival mode mentality dominating human actions and societal structures. Any person in survival mode can not participate in saving the planet, because survival means always "me first". As long as anyone is just surviving, he cannot take care of the oceans, the air, the rainforest. After transitioning into a "living mode," where human survival is guaranteed and basic needs like food, shelter, and health care are met for everyone, we will be in the position to enable our collective focus on our planet and on more meaningful and sustainable endeavors. Overpopulation - driven only by survival fears - can be changed overnight and humanity can naturally decrease in birth rates to sustainable levels.
Let´s collect and spread visionary ideas to shape a desirable, livable future on a healthy planet for all of us!
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Klaus Skoupy: I haven't done a video for quite a while now.
I know that it's about 2 or 3 years,
I think.
And you know, I had a lot to do,
and I was thinking a lot about what's going
on, what's happening with this world,
where are we steering towards and what might
be needed. So finally,
I got the time again,
and the energy to sit down and record a
little bit a few of my thoughts.
And I want them I want these to share with
you right here.
I really wondered why the world is in the
state where we find it right now.
You know, we are on the brink of really,
really harsh times.
We might be on the brink of,
you know, a world that no one of us wants to
imagine. No one of us probably wants to live
in a world that is beyond any mad Max world
that we can imagine, a world where in a
foreseeable future that probably all of us,
or most of us, except the very old ones among
us,
will probably experience.
A world where maybe billions and billions of
people,
not just a few, not just a few hundred
billions of people,
will be on the move because they will look
for a place to survive,
a place where they find food,
a place where they find water.
No fence, no wall will help any of us then,
because no fence or wall can stop billions of
people who desperate for survival.
So I thought over the last years,
and you can also see that in my last videos a
lot about what I found out that I call
survival mode,
and it's opposite the living mode.
It's very likely from a psychological
standpoint that the world is where it is
right now, in something that I call survival
mode.
You know, we thought the world is huge and we
are very small.
It's kind of a fear based system that says,
oh my God,
the world is out there.
So we need to we need to shape the world
according to our needs to survive on this big
and maybe even threatening planet.
And that's a thought that is totally okay.
That's a thought that is totally
understandable if you have it.
This thought just creates behaviors.
It creates survival behaviors.
Competition. Me first I want to,
you know, pass you on the run for food
hoarding greed. I need to,
you know, get more hay into my barn before
the winter starts so I can survive the
winter,
and possibly also the next winter.
And I want to secure and guarantee my
survival as much as I can.
But you always the enemy.
Because if you want to secure and guarantee
your survival as well.
Well, we have a problem.
If there's not enough for all of us.
A lot of technological progress was made that
way,
and it brought us to where we are today.
It brought us to our way of thinking.
So it created all the technology that we have
today.
It created for, for example,
the technology through which I'm now talking
to you. Without that technology,
it would be impossible to talk to each other
at a speed that we're doing today,
to connect with each other at a speed and at
a possibility. How we are doing it today,
many,
many things that we take for granted today.
Good things came out of that kind of attitude
or set of behaviors and brought us
technologically to where we are.
On the other hand side,
there are some disadvantages.
As long as we saw the planet as a huge thing
and ourselves very small.
Yeah. You go into the woods and,
you know, make the woods to a field so you
can you can see something,
you can harvest and you can nourish yourself.
Now, maybe this picture changed.
Maybe we are that big and the planet compared
to us is that small.
So it's not anymore a hostile environment
that we have to tame.
It's maybe it turned maybe much more into a
garden that you have to take care of.
So on one hand side, survival mode brought us
to technological wise,
to where we are and gave us the technologies
that we need to deal with today's problems.
On the other hand side,
it brought us to these severe problems that
we are facing today. That might,
in the end,
if we don't take care,
result in our extinction or the extinction of
most of us. And I wouldn't be one of the ones
who stay,
because that life would be so miserable that
I wouldn't want to participate.
One thing we might have to do,
from a psychologist's perspective,
at least, is to change our governing thoughts
about us,
about this planet, and about life.
And what is life? What life is there for?
Survival mode says we are here to survive.
It's like a computer game.
You're in a computer game,
and the only thing you try to do is not to
fall out of the game. I don't know how long
we would play that game,
and I don't know how much meaning this game
would have to be.
It's like being in the first three basic
levels and always trying to be in there,
trying to be in there,
trying to be in there. That does not really
mean playing the game.
Yes, it's surviving the game,
but not really playing it.
You can start playing the game only when your
survival is secured,
when you're staying in the game is at least
for the for the time you're playing the game.
Guaranteed. No game is fun when you enter the
game and you're out again.
So you want to be in the game to start
exploring the game.
Start exploring the possibilities of the
game.
Start playing the game.
And I think as humankind,
we are not there yet because for most of us,
the staying in the game is not guaranteed.
Still, in this world,
most of us are trying to stay in the game,
for better or worse. For some of us,
yes.
Staying in the game is kind of guaranteed.
Yeah, the staying in the game is kind of
safe.
But I don't even think that in our minds,
staying in the game is guaranteed.
Most of us are not only physically in
survival mode.
Most of the ones that are not physically in
survival mode anymore are psychologically
still in survival mode.
When you think we need to be faster,
we think we need to be richer.
We think we need to hoard more,
have more, keep more.
Yeah. So maybe psychologically and socially,
our constant struggle to
survive, our political systems that we have
built around surviving have created
where we are right now.
One aspect of that survival game is,
for example,
that most of us, nearly all of us,
look up and see because they are the ones
that have everything. We suppose they are in
living mode.
So we look up and see what can we give them,
what can we do for them so we get what we
need to survive as well,
or to live to start living a little bit.
So we look up and say,
what can I do for you?
So you give me. That's a system that we know
from our parents when we have been children.
That's a system that we know from monarchies.
That's a system we know from dictatorships,
and that's a system we know from adoring the
rich. What can I do for you,
rich person, so that you guarantee or secure
a little bit my survival?
But you know what? By looking up,
there's one thing we don't do.
Maybe we don't even have time for that.
We don't look left or right.
What we would see if we looked left or right
was ourselves and each other.
As long as we look up,
we think we need you up there for our
survival. When I start looking left and
right,
I can see. What if. What if we started to
guarantee
the participation in the game of everyone
left and right all the time?
What if we decide? To start creating living
mode.
To stop struggling for survival.
Stop looking up to give me what I need to
survive.
And start creating life by guaranteeing the
survival of each and every one of us on this
planet. We can do that if we want to.
We can probably easily do that.
It's just a question of ideas.
It's just a question of,
you know, sitting together and saying, okay,
how can we guarantee that the being is
staying in the game of everyone,
which is living mode,
not having to care for your survival on an
everyday basis? Food,
shelter and basic health guaranteed for
everyone. Like, okay,
let's you know what?
Let's stay in the game.
Let's ensure for everyone that every one of
us can and will stay in the game.
Not by looking up and begging,
but by looking left and right and deciding
this is what we want to do and this is what
we want to have.
These are the rules of the game.
We want to play here together.
Because you know what?
For saving this planet.
For saving this world,
we need a basis.
We need the possibility to do this.
And I don't think we're there yet.
Because whoever struggles for survival has
the survival attitude of me first and right.
So because I'm on the brink of starving to
death,
I don't care about your plastic trash.
I don't care about my plastic trash.
I don't care about pollution.
Not of the. Of the forest.
Not of the ocean. And I don't care of the
rainforest because I can't.
I don't have the time for it.
I don't have the energy for it.
I don't have the freedom for it.
I can't play this game as long as I play the
survival game.
We have to stop playing the survival game.
We have to move upwards to the next levels.
And you know what? The fun thing in this game
is that in the next levels the rules change.
In the survival game,
you just get that far.
And you know, we know the survival game
pretty much by heart.
We know the results of the survival game.
We have played it for thousands of years
already.
We have played it on different stages of
technological development.
We have played it on different stages of
sociological developments.
But we know the results.
It's like in a computer game you always need
to collect from the first levels what you
need for the next levels,
but then you don't stop at one level and
don't proceed to the next one.
You use what you have learned,
you use what you have acquired and move on
because that's what the game is all about to
move on.
We need to expand to the next level,
and the next level is not oh my god,
such a big planet and we are so small humans.
The next level is oh my god,
so many humans and such a small planet.
And it's not. Wow, there's this endless world
that we can exploit for our benefits.
It's more like, okay,
wow.
The next levels consist of a garden that if
we want to,
we have to take care of so we can live from
it.
We and the next generation and the generation
after this and the generations after that.
Caring for a garden requires much different
attitudes and behaviors than exploiting a
hostile nature. Maybe that was okay for the
past,
but look where we are now and look what we
need to do now.
And in the next level.
We need to do it ourselves.
There's no papa who will do it.
There's no king who will do it.
There's no president who will do it as we can
see.
And there's no God who will do it.
Let's start building a society that has the
means of taking care.
That means, first of all,
every one of us has the feeling of,
okay, it's taken care for me.
Nothing really basically can happen to me.
I won't starve to death.
I won't freeze to death.
I have a house and a bed to sleep in.
And if something happens to my health,
it's basically taken care of.
All of a sudden we can think,
okay, wow.
Now energies are free to play the game in a
new way in a more progressed way.
So once again, and I know I'm repeating
myself here,
the first thing to change anything,
in my opinion,
is start changing the context,
the framework of the game by ensuring the
participation of every one of us in the game
so we can start working together and stop
working against each other.
That is what is needed to help this planet.
Everything else is bound to fail because
that's in the system of against us versus the
system of togetherness.
So we drop the survival paradigm and start
the living paradigm.
With that, with entering the game of the
living mode.
We can also drop the growth paradigm.
And that is really important if our
participation in the game is guaranteed,
if our survival is guaranteed.
We don't need to grow anymore externally.
Why do you think? We have an overpopulation
problem.
I think psychologically the reason is safety
and survival.
When would a woman have give,
give birth to ten children?
When she fears that 1 or 2 might die at birth
or in the early years.
And when she needs them,
or the family needs them to feed them when
they are old. It's basically a protection for
old age.
Which you can see in all the societies where
you are protected when you're old,
by retirement payments,
by social security systems,
the birth rates drop down.
Women don't give birth to ten children
anymore,
except a few of them who want to do that,
which is totally okay.
But women found many,
many other ways, you know,
to develop themselves in that,
in that life.
To go from one level to the next level. And
that's not only giving birth to children. So
population in these countries actually
decrease or they would decrease if there were
no people moving into these societies all the
time.
So. You could say overpopulation is a problem
of survival mode.
Just imagine on this planet we don't need
children anymore for our security and safety
and protection. When we're old,
we have children because they are our future
generations, and we help them to live in that
garden as good as possible.
So if we are protected and our survival is
guaranteed,
nothing can happen to us anymore.
When we are old, we won't starve to death
then.
Why couldn't we have that?
Maybe today. Sounding crazy idea of,
you know,
letting birth rates go to where they would be
when we all have a guaranteed participation
and then see over the next 50,
70 or 100 years how the population of this
planet decreases to a level that is totally
bearable and sustainable for that planet.
Imagine we go back to 5 billion people,
not by force,
voluntarily, by just letting it happen.
All the houses are already there.
All the roads are built,
Build everything necessary to sustain that
many people is given. The only thing we have
to do is maintain what we already have and
start inventing a world.
You know, looking here and there where we
have developed tools,
methodologies or, you know,
materials that are not good for the planet
just to replace them with better ones,
energy system to replace them with better
ones. First step guarantee our participation.
Guarantee the possibility that we all look
towards the solution.
Second of all, reduce to a sustainable number
of people in the next 50,
70 or 100 years. And while we do that,
think about what needs to be replaced by a
more sustainable version of it.
What are we doing with all that plastic?
What are we doing with all the nuclear
fallout?
What are you doing with all the coal and
everything that goes into the air?
We are already thinking about replacing it.
But you know, it's going to be stressful
because so many of us cannot participate
because they are still struggling for
survival.
And that always comes first once survival is
guaranteed.
We all can start focus on the solutions for
our planet.
We don't have to focus on ourselves anymore
all the time.
We can focus outward on the others and on the
planet.
I don't know how we will do that if we will
do that by a universal basic income.
You know, and I don't need to know how to do
it because I'm just a psychologist.
I show the the patterns.
I can show the basic the governing thoughts
of who we are.
Do we think we are survive here to survive,
or do we think we are here to live and to
play and to explore? There are thousands of
brilliant mind,
brilliant minds on this planet who can think
of these solutions that we need.
All of us can think about that.
We are a whole force. All of us who can look
into the future and can can start creating a
future that is worthwhile,
that is livable, that is maybe passionate,
that is fun, and that makes sense to be in.
And I would love to see a growing number of
people,
you know, exchanging these ideas,
expressing these ideas,
writing them, creating a little video so that
we kind of sweep the whole world with ideas
of the future, ideas of a living and livable
future on this planet.
How would society look like?
What would you do? Create it,
record it and share it and throw it out
there. Doesn't matter if you send it to me
and I put it on this channel,
or if you put it on Twitter or on Instagram
or TikTok or wherever.
If you want to do something for the future,
we need to have a vision of the future.
A life vision of the future where people can
say,
well, yeah, that's attractive.
This is something we really want to go there.
That is more powerful than just saying,
oh, this is what you want to avoid.
This is what to get away from.
That's not so good. That doesn't work as
well.
Where do we want to go to?
How does the world look like when we're
there?
Make it attractive so we want to be there,
and then we can make our decisions and take
the steps to get there.
All of us together. All of us together.
That's, in my opinion,
the only way.
Thank you.
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