Sustainability: The search for the integral worldview

► Sustainability problems result from recurrent destabilization, overshoot and collapse of societal value orientations. ► Sustainability is lost as soon as societal value orientations become too much one sided and lose mutual cohesion. ► A sustainable society maintains balance between material versus immaterial and between individualist versus collectivist value orientations. ► The circular domain of balanced values constitute both the integral worldview, 'human dignity' and a new ethical framework. ► Sustainability policies should recognize and compensate the known and predictable mechanisms, that destabilize balanced value orientations.