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.

An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

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

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

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.