Last updated 2.20.25. Please note: We are building a new website for the Universe Institute's expanding work. It will take several months to complete. In the meantime, Job One for Humanity and the Universe Spirit organizations kindly host the Universe Institute materials.

Introduction to the Universe Institute

Resolving Planetary Challenges from a Universe-scaled and Evolutionary Systems Perspective

The Universe Institute is a 100% publicly funded, non-profit think tank founded in 2011. It has a unique and vital role in this critical evolutionary juncture. Humanity is facing numerous overwhelming planetary-scale challenges that are already adversely affecting the quality of life of many people and threatening humanity's very existence. 

The Universe Institute researches and analyzes the world’s most critical issues from an evolutionary and universe-whole-systems meta-perspective. It uses and promotes the new dialectical meta-systemic thinking methodology to analyze and manage the complex adaptive systems affecting our lives and environment (climate, politics, economy, ecology, etc.). 

Our Mission

Our mission is to help ensure the survival of our humanity and the environment that supports humanity's existence. We research and focus on the most critical issues that humanity must manage to survive as a species.

Our research and educational topics include:

Environmental sustainability, particularly concerning the climate change emergency (The Universe Institute partners with Job One for Humanity on many climate change research and analysis projects.)

Planetary resource management, such as marine protein depletion, freshwater supply, and other critical resources 

Human population management

Stability of national and global economic systems and financial markets

Prevention of war, maintaining political stability

Providing credible analysis and forecasts for possible collapse scenarios for humanity's most essential systems

Promoting the new dialectical meta-systemic thinking methodology for optimized analysis and management of complex adaptive systems (climate, politics, economy, ecology, etc.). Dialectical meta-systemic thinking transcends and yet includes systems thinking and other earlier analysis systems, including logic.

Educating about the new breakthroughs and principles of Progressive Evolution, particularly as they relate to safeguarding and securing humanity's future.

Forwarding the creation of a global country where current nations become represented as states within this new global country's government. On this project and research, the Universe Institute will be collaborating with other global organizations with similar goals. (Without the creation of a global country and a government that can resolve the many extinction-threatening transnational crises facing humanity today, like accelerating climate change, the survival and future of humanity will remain in serious doubt.) 

While researching these issues, we seek to define how we must act to survive current challenges and contribute to the successful evolution of life on Earth and in the universe, creating a just planetary civilization, sustainable prosperity, and high quality of life for ALL of humanity.

We achieve the educational part of our mission by publishing articles, papers, and books and consulting in collaboration with Job One for Humanity and other research organizations. Many of these articles, papers, and books outline the steps necessary to solve our major planetary challenges and avoid widespread global collapse.

Here are some of our most recent and important analysis and research articles

Click here for the honest 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets to prevent mass extinction in the following decades.

Click here to see the current climate change conditions for 2025.

Click here for our climate change consequence and timetable forecast for 2025 and beyond.

Click here to see what will happen if we fail to get global warming under control. (This also contains an analysis of Humanity's 12 most critical global challenges.)

Click here to see our plan for resolving the climate change and global warming emergency.

Click here for our analysis and predictions regarding a likely global extinction and collapse process driven by climate change factors interacting with humanity's other significant global challenges.

Contact Information

For the fastest response to all inquiries, please email Lawrence Wollersheim at manage@JobOneforHumanity.org

Universe Institute is a nonprofit educational organization and think tank committed to solving global problems that will make a healthier, safer, and just future for all.

The Universe Institute is a DBA of Factnet. Factnet is a 32-year-old US, IRS-recognized, tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. Factnet has received the highest possible nonprofit trust rating of Platinum Transparency from Guidestar/Candid. (GuideStar is an independent organization that examines and rates other nonprofit organizations' financial and administrative effectiveness and ethics in executing their missions).