So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Money is a mechanism for control.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.