Why do we experience scarcity in a World of staggering abundance?

We live on a planet of staggering abundance.

Every morning, the sun delivers more energy to Earth in a single hour than all of humanity uses in a year.

Our fields grow enough food to nourish every person on the planet — twice over. The oceans hold endless potential for renewal.

The forests know how to heal themselves if only given the chance.

So why, in a world of such richness, do millions still go hungry?

Why do children sleep without shelter while warehouses overflow with goods that no one needs?

Why does 40% of the world still live in poverty?

The truth is, we don’t have a resource problem.

We have a relationship problem.

Somewhere along the way, we forgot that the Earth is alive — and that we belong to her, not the other way around.

We’ve built systems that turn abundance into scarcity — through waste, greed, and disconnection.

We waste nearly 40% of all food produced.

We treat shelter as an investment rather than a human right.

We measure success by accumulation instead of well-being.

The result? A few live in overconsumption while many live in deprivation — and the Earth, the ultimate provider, strains under the weight of imbalance.

But this is not an inevitability. 

We have the knowledge, the technology, and the means to meet everyone’s basic needs without destroying our home.

The missing piece is wisdom — the collective willingness to reorder our priorities.

To design economies around care, not competition.

To measure progress by health, not profit.

To see every person as worthy of enough.

To see the Earth not as a resource to consume, but as a living system to honor.

There is enough food, energy, and shelter for all.

What we truly hunger for is a new story — one where humanity remembers that we are not separate from Earth or each other, but threads in the same living fabric.

When we act from that truth,

abundance will no longer be something we chase.

It will be something we experience and live.

- Nitin