How to Restore Our Relationship to Earth

According to the Ecological Footprint Network,
 humans currently consume at a rate 1.7 times
what Earth’s generative capacity can sustain—and
the gap is growing.

To have a viable human future on this overstressed planet, it is essential that we build a solidarity economy that seeks material sufficiency and spiritual abundance for all in balance with a living Earth. We must join in common cause to build local relationships of caring and equitable sharing across the lines of race, religion, and class. Strong and healthy local relationships, however, are only one element of the larger economic transformation required to rebalance our relationship to Earth and achieve a radical redistribution of access to and control of the essentials of living.

Read the Yes! Magazine story by David Korten - “How to Restore Our Relationship to Earth.”