The humankind is facing many a challenges at this time and no one is sure how we as a whole could resolve and overcome these challenges.
But if looked carefully, we may uninamously agree that the only challenge that should be dealt with is :
How to restore the balance of human population in comparison proportionately with the other living creatures over the globe.
We can't ever think of achieving this goal by means of war, disease, or through applying the ways of birth-control.
If we don't meet this challenge on our own, we are bound to fall prone to the whims of nature.
Nature takes its own recourse, in its own ways.
It's true we may reconsider the ways through penance and austerities that is observed by the ascetics. Only those, who look this as the only practical option for the future of the mankind would follow this spiritual discipline for their own ultimate benefit, however the same is also equally true for all others as well.
All and everyone can see that the resources at our hands are enough for living the human life with peace and in harmony, if we are not after grabbing and hoarding the things which we don't need.
This may be the only INTELLIGENCE that we may come across.
And no politician, scientist or organised religion is perhaps going to help you in reaching this INTELLIGENCE.
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