Travelers on a living spaceship, humans continue to live like cowboys on an open frontier — living out an old story in a new era. In deep denial and captive to the imperatives of global corporations and financial markets that value money more than life, those who hold positions of institutional power remain resolutely committed to policies that enrich themselves, but impoverish people, community, and planet. To create a world that works for all, public policy must give priority not to aggregate growth, but to using the resources of planet and society equitably and sustainably to provide healthy, fulfilling lives for all people and other living beings. It means reorganizing economic life to produce more of the things that people need — like food, shelter, clothing, education, and health care — and less of the costly things we do not — like military hardware, pollution, traffic jams, and crime. --- David C Korten
Happy Earthday fellow Earthlings!
The Moon is about 60% and waning so get your telescopes and binoculars out and look at our neighbors puttin on a show. Saturn's got her rings tilted at us for the best view in 60 years, Jupiter is real close so you can see some moons even with binoculars and Mars will be closer than it has been for 50,000 years next month. May 1st is a New Moon so the sky will be the best for planet watching!
And maybe we'll realize we can't go to those places and need to keep this planet inhabitable...
