Alternative economic strategies would protect the environment for the long term and improve the quality of life for the majority of the world’s people. Some ideas...

• use full cost pricing - for example, a price for gas which reflects impact on the environment;

• emphasize community responsibility, not just individual rights;

• develop social capital (resources that belong to everyone), not just private capital;

• promote cooperative activity to balance the "worship" of competition;

• pay more attention at the local level to protecting the environment and becoming more self-reliant;

• develop and use ‘environmental accounts’ in government planning;

• regulate commodity flows so we don’t use up all of our natural resources;

• push for international agreements on a fairer distribution of wealth.