A Futurist Says Humanity Is Evolving in 3 Phases. We Just Finished the First One.
A self-proclaimed healthcare futurist, Jeffrey Charles Hardy, says that after millions of years, human evolution has stalled out.
He believes we are in a state of suspended evolution before the second stage starts.
Hardy wants humanity to plan for its own evolution.
Humanity’s domination of nature put an end to a millions-year-long human evolution run, according to self-proclaimed healthcare futurist Jeffrey Charles Hardy. And now that the first stage of human evolution has concluded, he believes we’ve entered a suspended state and a second stage of evolution is coming. It’s all ours to shape.
“In this phase,” Hardy said in a statement, “we find ourselves reassessing and moving away from the unsustainable practices of unlimited growth and waste that we inherited from the first human evolution. We are in a state of searching for a new path forward.”
According to him, that new path forward should focus on peace.
The healthcare veteran believes that human evolution is happening in three distinct stages. The initial stage, which he dubs the first human evolution, started over two million years ago, defined by humanity’s growing desire to conquer nature. But that phase finally started to decline in the mid-1950s when humans found the ultimate weapon to destroy the very Earth they used: nuclear weapons. He believes that humanity’s complete command over nature and each other signified the end of the stage, sending us into the second phase, suspended human evolution. That’s where we are now before the start of the second human evolution begins at some point in the future.
“It’s yet to be determined and is ours to imagine, discuss, plan, design, and implement,” Hardy said in the statement about the second stage. Instead of a plan focused on controlling nature, Hardy believes the second human evolution should offer a solution to our past woes and strive for peace.
Hardy, who has started the Care for Peace Foundation, wants that caring for others to define the second human evolution and that his time in the healthcare world has shown him that nurturing and sustaining peace through compassionate action is something that comes intrinsic to many.
Using four key templates is key to both understanding and planning, Hardy claims. He wants people to focus on individual values and responsibilities, grow peace in relationships, foster holistic well-being in cultural contexts, and unify their efforts across individuals and organizations.
Hardy’s goal isn’t novel—world peace, after all has been on Christmas lists for centuries—but building the human evolution debate into the planning for it comes new.
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