After All, For Mankind As A Whole

Modern Man Talks Of A Battle With Nature, Forgetting That, If He Won The Battle, He Would Find Himself On The Losing Side

Study How A Society Uses Its Land, And You Can Come To Pretty Reliable Conclusions As To What Its Future Will Be.

Modern Industry Seems To Be Inefficient To A Degree That Surpasses One's Enduring Powers Of Imagination. Its Inefficiency Therefore Remains Unnoticed.

From A Buddhist Point Of View, This Is Standing The Truth On Its Head By Considering Goods As More Important Than People And Consumption As More Important Than Creative Activity. It Means Shifting The Emphasis From The Worker To The Product Of Work, That Is, From The Human To The Sub-human, Surrender To The Forces Of Evil.

Modern Economic Thinking...is Peculiarly Unable To Consider The Long Term And To Appreciate Man's Dependence On The Natural World.