Our New Story Has the Sacred in It

Some ecological economists have quit trying to justify their ecological perspective to other economists and turned to telling a new story instead. That story is a OneEarth story and has interactive components of ecology, economics, science, and spirituality. David Korten is one of these, as shown in his excellent essay, A New Story for a New Economy: To Find Our Human Place in a Living Universe, which he delivered to a group of ecological economists. In the new story we no longer see ourselves outside of nature, ordering and ruling it as if we are half-human, half-godlike creatures—a highly unnatural being that we’re not nearly as good at as we pretend.

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