ABSTRACT
It is not a trivial thing it means much more than we seem to imagine it is not just greener products it is not electric cars or solar panels or windmills or hemp clothing and it is not just vegetarian diets it is a major shift in how we live a fundamental commitment to each other proscribing greed an end to unconscionable concentrations of wealth and steps towards substantial population reduction in the medium term there are no two ways about it there is a need not just to curb but cease our profligacy to cherish the benefits of living modestly to propagate less and see a child as a gift to the community abandoning societal atomization in favour of extended communal sharing and integral social care our endeavours have to be for people not profit equitable environmental and meaningful everything that big business and big industry is not and never can be it means embracing life more intimately and recognizing our interdependence with each other and the earth itself not growth or technology or genetic modification but radically reassessing who we are and how we should live and where happiness lies rejecting the false promises of extrinsic rewards and finding something deeper within ourselves call it tao brahmin the ground of being this is life free of distractions wants status centred in timelessness at-one-ment imagination and love.
