By David C. Korten
Korten calls our present tale Sacred cash and Markets. funds, it tells us, is the degree of all worthy and the resource of all happiness. Earth is just a resource of uncooked fabrics. Inequality and environmental destruction are unlucky yet unavoidable. even though many realize that this tale promotes undesirable ethics, undesirable technological know-how, and undesirable economics, it's going to stay our guiding tale till changed via one who aligns with our private realizing of the universe and our courting to it.
To consultant our route to a practicable human destiny, Korten deals a Sacred lifestyles and dwelling Earth tale grounded in a cosmology that affirms we live beings born of a residing Earth itself born of a residing universe. Our future health and health depend upon an economic climate that works in partnership with the strategies wherein Earth's group of existence keeps the stipulations of its personal existence—and ours. supplying a hopeful imaginative and prescient, Korten lays out the transformative influence adopting this tale can have on each element of human existence and society.
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