If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

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.

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on coloniz­ing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.