We need a new paradigm for living on the Earth. An alternative to the present paradigm is now a survival imperative for the human species. And the alternative that is needed is not only at the level of tools or technologies: it is at the level of our worldview. How do we look at ourselves in this world? What are humans for? Are we merely a money-making and resource-guzzling machine? Or do we have a higher purpose?

The world order built on the economic fundamentalism of limitless growth and on the technological fundamentalism that maintained that there is a technological fix for every social and ...

 

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