This carries the correlate of recognizing our own limits in claiming the fruits of the earth and in managing and manipulating nature. Despite the fact that societies are filled with coercive violence and restriction of basic freedoms, a global ethical consensus is emerging on human rights in general, and increasingly on the needs and rights of members of non-dominant groups, such as women and indigenous peoples. Human development should not threaten the integrity of nature or the survival of other species. We must accept a world of material limits. A correlate of extending rights to others is recognizing the limits of human technological and intellectual capacities.
Human humility is essential.
The globalized market focuses on increasing financial transactions through fostering material production and consumption. All religions and philosophies recognize qualitative ends beyond enhancing quantitative, material well-being. So should development theory. What is needed is a shift in our model of the good life. Capital would be more rooted in local ownership and most production carried out by small enterprises.