The focus is on the possibility of a better world and a more fulfilling way of life, rather than what’s wrong or what we have to give up. We are ordinary people. 6.7 billion of us need to use our people power to bring about a sustainable, fairer, and non-violent world.
We cannot hope to build a better world without improving ourselves as individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity. Our particular duty is to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
We also need a new global ethic, where loyalty to one’s family and nation is supplemented by a higher loyalty to humanity as a whole. On our small but beautiful planet – made small by technology and made beautiful by nature – there is room for one group only: the family of humankind.
– John Scales Aver
