Mankinds fear of death and our chance to mature and grow up

Being a climate activist and trying to bring to life the full potential of cooperative enterprices for housing, I realized, it is still a wide held view that growing metropoles and expanding large housing cooperatives are something attractive.

Deciding to offer less new flats and restricting urban growth feels for many like standing still and curbing potential for growth and may be even happiness. The climate situation however shows, that unlimited growth does not work and treathens us all.

I started to compare the situation with an individual life, where childhood and youth also means growth, but becoming an adult we, like most animals, stop growing and stand still in this respect. I wondered could there be an connection that as collective mankind we subtly know that, if we stop to grow, we have to leave behind the phase of youth and are thus one phase closer to our collective death, extinction?

Otto Schamer writes in "The Essentials of Theory U on page 28,29 regarding 3 obstacles to inner knowing:"The third enemy blocks the gate to open will. This is the voice of fear (VoF). It seeks to prevent us from letting go of what we have and who we are. It can show up as a fear of losing things.....Or a fear of death".

I realized, that is actually the case, that we fear death within our collective awareness and thus hesitate to grow up as mankind, to make this step from youth to adult.

Being an adult would mean taking full responsibilty for ones action. Obviously we struggle very hefty to manage this in respect of a a good relationship with our planet earth. Therefore it is up to us, to mankind, now to see this fear and to put it aside, so we can take this step. Otherwise we will call to us the death which we fear. If we know this fear, we know, it is only a fear and not reality. Then the seeing and knowing can come, that a really attractive land lies before us, that we can walk in there together, explore it and cultivate it and thus come in our full life and power as mankind.