Change the Story Change the Future A Living Economy for a Living Earth 1st Edition by David Korten ISBN 1626562903 978-1626562905

ISBN 13: 978-1626562905

Author:  David C. Korten
The international bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the World shares a vital new vision for changing humanity’s self-destructive course.

We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society have set us on a self-destructive path. In Change the Story, Change the Future, Korten offers a new story that lets us reimagine society and navigate the critical needs of our time.

Korten calls our current story Sacred Money and Markets. Money, it tells us, is the measure of all worth and the source of all happiness, while inequality and environmental destruction are unfortunate but unavoidable. Although many recognize that this story promotes bad ethics, bad science, and bad economics, it will remain our guiding story until replaced by one that aligns with our deepest understanding of the universe and our relationship to it.

To guide our path to a viable human future, Korten offers a story he calls Sacred Life and Living Earth. It is grounded in a cosmology that affirms we are living beings born of a living Earth itself born of a living universe. Our health and well-being therefore depend on an economy that works in partnership with the Earth’s community of life. Offering a hopeful vision, Korten lays out the transformative impact adopting this story will have on every aspect of human life and society.

Foreword The Club of Rome

Our Story Problem

Our Quest to Know

A Brief History of Story Politics

A Living Universe

Children of a Living Earth

Making a Living

Enslaved by Corporate Robots

A New Economics for a New Economy

A Living Economy for a Living Earth

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