Change the Story, Change the Future

Name: Change the Story, Change the Future
Brand: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
SKU: 9781626562905-PRUSDTR
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200 pages • 5.56 x 8.56 x 0.5 in

Approx. weight: 0.59 lb

Publication date: 02 Feb,2015

Barcode: 9781626562905 • Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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By: David C. Korten

The international bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the World shares a vital new vision for changing humanity’s self-destructive course.

We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society have set us on a self-destructive path. In Change the Story, Change the Future, Korten offers a new story that lets us reimagine society and navigate the critical needs of our time.

Korten calls our current story Sacred Money and Markets. Money, it tells us, is the measure of all worth and the source of all happiness, while inequality and environmental destruction are unfortunate but unavoidable. Although many recognize that this story promotes bad ethics, bad science, and bad economics, it will remain our guiding story until replaced by one that aligns with our deepest understanding of the universe and our relationship to it.

To guide our path to a viable human future, Korten offers a story he calls Sacred Life and Living Earth. It is grounded in a cosmology that affirms we are living beings born of a living Earth itself born of a living universe. Our health and well-being therefore depend on an economy that works in partnership with the Earth's community of life. Offering a hopeful vision, Korten lays out the transformative impact adopting this story will have on every aspect of human life and society.