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Multinational Corporations And A Market Economy Have Transformed Human Beings Into Instruments Of Making Money. Human Beings Should Be The End. And Money Should Be The Means To An End.

There Is At The Moment In The World A Battle Going On Between Those Who Are Pursuing Materialistic Paths-globalizers Of Economic Growth And Those Hell-bent On This 'big Is Better' Idea-on The One Hand, And On The Other Hand Those Who Are Dedicated To Spiritual Renewal, More Small-scale Development, More Human Scale, More Sustainability, More Crafts And Arts. Where Human Beings Are Not Just Sold To Companies And Money And Those Kinds Of Things. Where Human Beings Have A Sacred Path.

People Are Are Moving Away From The Fossil Fuel-based Economy, To A More Renewable Economy. That Is What Is Called The 'transition Town' Movement. There Are Three Hundred Towns In Britain That Are Making This Transition. Taking Energy From Solar Power, From Wind Power, From Water Power.

This Was Mahatma Gandhi’s Idea, Moving From Ownership To Relationship—seeing That Land Does Not Belong To Us. We Belong To The Land. We Are Not The Owners Of The Land. We Are The Friends Of The Land, Like Friends Of The Earth. The Fundamental Shift Is In This Consciousness That Land Does Not Belong To Us, We Belong To The Land.

It Doesn't Matter Where Or How It Is Grown As Long As It Is Packaged In Plastic, Put On The Supermarket Shelves, And Bought As A Commodity. In The New Story Food Is Not Commodity. Food Is Sacred. We Need To Be Connected With Soil, With Animals That We Take Care Of.