Since the Rome Club published its report. "Limits To Growth", the following have been accepted by the present generations as common goals to create a better world for future generations: the efficient use of our limited natural resources, and the control of the growth of population which shows a tendency to ever consume more and faster. This movement has so far led to variety of revolutionary changes in energy-saving technology as well as the adoption of birth control by governments in Asia, such as China, India, and Indonesia. Since the end of the Cold War, a typical representation of confrontation and competition, the concept of coexistence and co-prosperity have become more viable and acceptable. The goals we wish to accomplish may be difficult, especially, if we proceed with the present method and style of consumption-oriented economic activities and with the burden of an ever growing population. As barriers among nations, economic and otherwise, are being removed, it not only eliminates the conceit of an otherwise isolated nation but it helps to make one nation’s problem a shared and more easily and quickly solvable world problem. As we approach the twenty-first century, people have started accepting the idea of a common goal of creating a world where people thrive towards coexistence and co-prosperity beyond religious, political and ideological differences. In a world of limited resources, desires extravagant and beyond its permissible level would always lead to a state contrary to coexistence and co-prosperity. Therefore, unless we resolve the problem of shortage, we will not be able to firmly establish coexistence and co-prosperity. When we consider the phrase "soft landing into the twenty-first century," it is apparent that we accomplish the following: resolve the problems in our current education system, provide the technology to replace the consumption based economic activities with that of resource-recovery and recycling, and provide fundamental solutions to environment, food production, health care, and energy, all of which are presenting threats to humankind. Our present approach, the application of effective microorganism, has started gaining wide attention as the only technology available now. It has been applied in a wide variety of areas in environment, food production, medicine, energy, and industry. It is expected to be a breakthrough technology promising a soft landing for the people into twenty-first century.

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