Humanity is experiencing a deepening environmental, economic, and social crisis. Rather than address the problem, those in positions of formal power point to encouraging short-term statistics on economic growth, rising stock prices, and employment expansion as proof that all is well. They seem not to realize that in the pursuit of money, we have forgotten how to live. Worse, we have created institutions that are destroying life for the sole end of making money. It should be the simplest of choices.
Money is nothing but an abstraction of no substance or intrinsic worth.
Life is the essence of our being, the breath of God, a miracle of creation. The cause of our crisis is largely self-evident. Our economy is ruled by global corporations and financial institutions that measure success by the rate at which the life energies of people and the natural capital of the planet are being converted into money to inflate the financial assets of the already very wealthy. The task ahead, what Thomas Berry calls the Great Work, is both simple and profound. By all indications, we cannot afford to wait for constructive leadership from the failed institutions of corporation and state.