New Economies Oriented towards Life
Shifting towards a mindset that encompasses dignity, equity, and flourishing for all means thinking on a whole system—indeed, planetary—scale. It is not just one sector, for example, business as discussed in the last chapter, that needs to change. All major socioeconomic and socioecological systems need reorientation towards flourishing and away from growth-atall costs and financial wealth as the ultimate goals—and towards socioeconomic system considerably more life—and relationship-oriented. That shift needs to happen globally, though obviously in culturally and context-sensitive ways. It cannot be done by the colonizing people, nature-dominating mindset that has characterized the industrial era—or ...
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