I think voter's apathy has many reasons, for example today most people realize the party politics have become self-serving, totally disconnected from the public elected politicians should actually serve, and also that our leaders are standing desperately helpless in the face of the deepening global crisis and only care about their own personal agendas, legacies, re-election prospects.

Besides today's "left and right" are extremely close to each other, both serving the same system, the same misguided "constant growth, expansive" model that keeps their financial supporters happy.

Our present political and economical system is in a deep crisis, and the way out of the crisis requires fundamentally new attitude, new program, returning to a natural, comfortable, sustainable lifestyle in terms of economics and true, transparent, independent public representation in terms of politics.

Regarding the "precautionary and proactionary" split the author suggests, I am not sure it would represent any higher level of development, it would simply rearrange our present separations along different lines.

But the separation, misunderstanding and usual stand-offs would remain, originating from a single reason: We have no idea about the natural system we exist in, thus either we are afraid to move forward fearing the consequences, or we go "boldly", destroying, harming, depleting until we cross a point of no return.

The true "next stage" of human evolution is a stage when we examine our global, integral, interdependent system to the last detail, we understand we are part of the system (not above it like a child in a toystore), and that we have a special role within the system to facilitate its harmony and homoeostasis.

Armed with such knowledge, and educating it to each and every human being we would not need to be either precautionary nor proactionary, we could simply live our lives with our eyes open seeing the direct cause and effect relationships in whatever we do.