It seems to me that we are captives of an ideology which has brought us to a dysfunctional global economy. What was once acceptable in the days of walking, swords and small population centers, is calamitous in today's global scale of jet airlines, weapons of mass destruction, gigantic urban populations and instant communication. It will take a revolution in the way we think about our place in the scheme of life, a new ideology, to change our behavior. A mass movement toward a sustainable global economy will require something like a global religious epiphany. People are moved by emotion not intellectual comprehension. We all want a good life for our children if not a better life than we had. Without a new world view, widely accepted, we shall continue our profligate consumption and reproduction leaving a despoiled planet for our children's children.

Human economies are ultimately political constructions and respond to political power however exercised. Those of us who accept the scientifically compiled data predicting a grim future must act quickly in the political arena if we hope to avoid that grim future.