Moving beyond the society's definition of success

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.” ― David Orr, Ecological Literacy

Yes, our planet doesn't need more successful people because the society's definition of "success" is anti-Earth and anti-humanity, since people's competition for more wealth, possession, recognition, social status, etc only serves to create division and discrimination among humankind as well as over-exploit natural resources and cause environmental degradation and species extinction.

It is more important and sane to seek to make the world habitable and humane through championing equal rights and promoting freedom and peace as well as working towards environment conservation. Like what David Orr said, these qualities have little to do with the society's definition of "success".

“I think the greatest people in (our) society carve niches that represent the unique expression of their combination of talent.” Neil deGrasse Tyson