Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy

This is a short but deeply powerful video about the book Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy. It poses five powerful questions which may be important for each and every one of us to consider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjfx7diJ-ug

From the Moral Economy Project website at http://www.moraleconomy.org/:

What is right relationship? A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, resilience, and beauty of the commonwealth of life. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

OVERVIEW OF RIGHT RELATIONSHIP: BUILDING A WHOLE EARTH ECONOMY

Most people have been conditioned to accept the operation of the economy as an article of faith. Unlimited growth and wealth accumulation are seen as the "natural law" of the economy and nothing can be done to alter this fact -- even if it means the integrity of Earth's ecological and social systems are severely damaged in the process. This "inconvenient truth" is now a moral challenge. We are faced with a choice: bring the economy into right relationship with the planet and its inhabitants, or suffer the consequences -- the increasing destruction of Earth's life support systems and social structures. Drawing on the Quaker principle of "right relationship," the book Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy presents a proposal for bringing our economy, our ethics, and our environment into alignment.

May we each work to create an economy and a world which honors and supports life on our Earth Mother.

Peace ~ Molly

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In Right Relationship, Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver use the core Quaker principle of "right relationship"--respecting the integrity, resilience, and beauty of human and natural communities--as the foundation for a new economic model. Right Relationship poses five basic questions: What is an economy for? How does it work? How big is too big? What's fair? And how can it best be governed? Brown and Garver expose the antiquated, shortsighted, and downright dangerous assumptions that underlie our current answers to these questions, as well as the shortcomings of many reform efforts. They propose new answers that combine an acute awareness of ecological limits with a fundamental focus on fairness and a concern with the spiritual, as well as material, well-being of the human race. And they outline what each of us can do to enable life's commonwealth. ~ review from http://www.amazon.com/Right-Relationship-Building-Whole-Economy/dp/1576757625