Quote:The challenge lies in developing communities that engender a sense of camaraderie stemming from collective self-help and face-to-face interaction. We must move away from the headlong drive towards urbanization in places like India and falsely equating well-being or ‘happiness’ with addiction to consumer goods. This shift involves rejecting the goods and services being forced upon us by large, powerful corporate interests, while placing more emphasis on self-sustaining local communities in which bio-diverse, organic agriculture and local food sovereignty is central and where there is sustainable use of the environment. And this is as true for the rich countries as it is for the poorer ones.

We must do this because if we don’t, we are in line for more of the same: an ever spiral of misery, war, subterfuge and deceit.