The other to be accused is ourselves. Isolationism has trickled down from the conquerors into the mind and behaviors of their subjects, and eventually it will spread to the vanquished themselves. Television and the Internet may have created an electronic village, but no one is rushing to help their neighbor. Whether across the street or across the world we need to care about each other's environments, realizing that the distinctions and boundaries of yesterday are no longer applicable, if they ever were, and that no place is far away. Universalization of laws for the protection of life is an ethical imperative.
All life is precious.
It is equally precious to the rich and the poor, the white and the black, to men and women. Laws for the protection of private property rights should not be imposed globally. They need to be restrained. It is one thing to talk about a global community created by communications and transportation technologies, but it is quite another for individuals to act as citizens of a planet-wide society, and for corporations of any sort to act in the interests of anything but profit. And unless food production is put on a socially, ecologically, and economically sustainable footing, we can hardly claim to be tackling urgent global problems.