If we humans were to rapidly, consciously evolve to new values and perspectives, how would that world work?

Question

Effectively dealing with the world's biggest problems will clearly require a new mindset -- a whole new way of seeing human life and the values that support it. Our present values and perspectives give us wars, pollution, poverty and many other negative byproducts that are literally threatening the future of humanity. The solution is to consciously evolve ourselves to a new set of values and principles that allow us to live on this planet in a significantly different way. Perhaps it happens as the reaction to a major to global event like rapid climate change, peaking of oil or a financial collapse, but however it happens, it would produce a new world with a necessarily different economy, ecology, philosophy, politics, and governmental systems. What might that look like?

Answer 1

just read 1984

Answer 2

Yours is a well put and quite profound question, but my answer is not one of hope, and trust me I have been thinking about this for years.
For a model of Utopia (which is what you are hoping for) one example I can think of, and don't laugh, is Star Trek - but not the original series. In Star Trek money and materialism have become redundant, clean, safe and sustainable energy is available to all, the environment has been saved from destruction,most diseases have been eradicated and poverty is a thing of the past, everyone (I presume) has access to education and nationality and race are no bar to advancement. Religion seems to be conveniently sidelined ( can the only vision of a peaceful future be without God?) Governments have banded together to share in the common purpose of the advancement of mans' best potential. Sounds wonderful doesn't it?
Unfortunately all the above are impossible, we have no hope of global harmony when we are so diverse and divided in politics, economics, faith, language, culture, ideals, morals e.t.c. In any film where you have an idealised society, it is always at the price of freedom/ choice/ independence in one way or another. Remember babbling Matrix guy saying the first and perfect programme they created was impossible for the participants to exist in because it was too nice?
I think a collapse such as global warming causing the sea to rise rapidly, will only exaggerate the difference between the haves and the have nots. Poorer countries on this planet have no stake in the future because they have no stake in the present.
Yours is a beautiful dream.
Thanks for such an interesting question.

Answer 3

A few ideas to start with:

People would use clean fuels and free energy (promote research).
Ban fossile fuel. For a start, ban personal cars or make them extremely expensive, as well as oil. Mass transport vehicles using fossile fuel could be allowed to run until a better solution is found. This should be done immediately.
Promote bicycles and the commercial solutions for cars using clean fuel. Design bicycles with passenger seats for children.
Human waste recycling and separation from reusable water.
Cheap solar energy collectors. Solar energy collecting in deserts.
Solar energy collecting on open sea – instead of oil platforms, build solar collector towers on high seas and use them to produce usable water (apparently it’s possible but needs a lot of energy).
Tree planting. Make paper expensive.
Population growth control.
Forbid artificial insemination on the grounds of population growth control. Better to adopt children.
Ban red meat production.
Put an end to consumer mentality and advertise different sets of values, like finding happiness in small things, free time and nature.
Develop a thin electronic computer-like device for reading books and printed material. Make it cheap. Make paper books overly expensive, in order to save trees.
Rearrange priorities in school curriculums so that ecology and ethics, possibly spirituality, are more important than history and literature.