We are shaping a renewed nation for ourselves in Scotland today. And so to right. That's obvious enough. This is where we must be most careful, for it is not just about economic development. Indeed, far too often economy expects to be served by community, rather than the other way round as any human-centred development ought to be.
Development is therefore about unfolding what it means to be most fully and authentically human.
It means to recognise each woman, child and man as having human potential. It is to make a society where the purpose of being family, community, nation and world are to ensure that each person can take up the right to achieve their fullest humanisation for what it is, for all it is, and for all we are and might yet become. It is no good attempting this in ways that take away from what future generations should inherit of the Earth. Thus our development must be sustainable. Like many native peoples and the ancient Chinese, I think we should plan on a seven generation time horizon.