Trevor Hancock: Valuing our relationship with each other

I am exploring my “scriptural text” from the Word Wide Fund for Nature’s 2014 Living Planet Report that was the basis of my homily for the First Unitarian Church back in April. The report stated: “Ecosystems sustain societies that create economies. It does not work the other way around.”

I was born in 1948, the same year that the National Health Service was established in the U.K. The years that followed, the years in which I grew up and went to medical school, were a time of public investment in housing, education and social welfare. But with the advent of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and the triumph of neo-liberal values, much of that has been torn down.

Yet humans are perhaps above all else a social ­species. So the second set of transformed values I ­propose is the need for what the Great Transition ­Initiative calls “solidarity,” a re-awakening of our sense of kinship with and shared responsibility for our fellow humans, of a sense of community.

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