Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future
Duane Elgin
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 0060934999
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
When Duane Elgin's classic bestseller, Voluntary Simplicity, was published in 1981, it transformed the lives of thousands and was hailed as the "bible" of the simplicity movement by the Wall Street Journal. Now, for anyone seeking to navigate today's profoundly changing world, Promise Ahead is the powerful sequel to a road map for securing a promising future.
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CHOOSING A NEW LIFEWAY: VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY The price of anything is the amount of life that you have to pay for it. —Henry Thoreau Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. —Will Rogers A QUIET REVOLUTION THE second opportunity trend that can make an enormous contribution to an evolutionary bounce is a voluntary shift toward more sustainable and satisfying ways of living. This is a promising development for, in.
Economy would also be more democratized as workers take a larger role in decision making. All types of products—such as cars, refrigerators, and carpeting—would be designed to be easily disassembled and then recycled into new products, minimizing waste. Less money would be spent on material goods and more on entertainment, education, and communication. One criticism of the simple life is that it would undermine economic growth and produce high unemployment. This criticism is based on the.
Generation—less than thirty years—Gaviotans have transformed one of the most resource-starved regions in the country into a sustainable economy, a nurturing community, and a flourishing ecosystem. In doing so, they have given us a brilliant example of just how rich and fertile the human imagination can be. In the early 1970s, Lugari brought scientists, engineers, doctors, university students, and other advisors to this remote and inhospitable site to explore how it could be transformed into a.
Individual person, but at the same time embracing and shaping the successive multitude of individuals, a sort of generalised human superpersonality is visibly in the process of formation on the earth.25 In recent years, many different voices have been telling us that humanity’s most basic challenge is to awaken our collective consciousness so that we can respond successfully to the social and ecological problems that confront us. Psychiatrist Roger Walsh writes that “the state of the world.
Aroused the conscience—of the nation. It also brought the nonviolent marches of the civil rights movement into America’s collective consciousness and helped to awaken broad recognition of racial oppression. Finally, in airing the voices and views of women calling for liberation, the mass media helped to catalyze the women’s movement and its explicit call for consciousness raising. We have even experienced group consciousness at the planetary level. One example was in 1969 when the human family.