The Most Striking Thing About Modern Industry

An Entirely New System Of Thought Is Needed, A System Based On Attention To People, And Not Primarily Attention To Goods. . . .

By Means Of Trees, Wildlife Could Be Conserved, Pollution Decreased, And The Beauty Of Our Landscapes Enhanced. This Is The Way, Or At Least One Of The Ways, To Spiritual, Moral, And Cultural Regeneration.

Economic Policies Absorb Almost The Entire Attention Of Government, And At The Same Time Become Ever More Impotent. The Simplest Things, Which Only Fifty Years Ago One Could Do Without Difficulty, Cannot Get Done Any More. The Richer A Society, The More Impossible It Become To Do Worthwhile Things Without Immediate Payoff.

The Real Problems Of Our Planet Are Not Economic Or Technical, They Are Philosophical. The Philosophy Of Unbridled Materialism Is Being Challenged By Events.

We Still Have To Learn How To Live Peacefully, Not Only With Our Fellow Men But Also With Nature And, Above All, With Those Higher Powers Which Have Made Nature And Have Made Us; For, Assuredly, We Have Not Come About By Accident And Certainly Have Not Made Ourselves