Few are those who conscientiously alter the way they live for the benefit of all. Even religious establishments seem more concerned with finding ways to impose their culture on others, than with setting a credible example or promoting understanding among various cultures and belief systems. While we jostle for money, power or the moral high ground, quibbling over who is right or wrong and who deserves a bigger piece of the pie, we are steadily consuming the best of what our planet can give us. Creation is draining out the bottom because the barrel has a leak, and the leak is our blindness to the fact that each of us is equally responsible. This is humanity's single most important underlying threat to the environment.
Scientific research is heavily biased towards making our lives easier and healthier.
But how can these be good values if we do it at the expense of future generations. Or with the presumption that humanity is the only significant player in our cosmos, that we have no moral responsibility to the species we're destroying and natural resources we're consuming. Wiccans believe that whatever we do, for good or ill, comes back to us threefold. It's not hard to imagine how our self-absorption as a species will soon come back to haunt us. If we carry on concentrating on who owns what and whose world view is better, ultimately we'll have nowhere left to live, no healthy food to eat, and no beauty to appreciate.