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Urgent need to wake up to the demands of the environment

Humans are notoriously, if understandably, self-centred. It takes long years of education to teach children to consider the needs of others, and even then the struggle between narcissism and altruism continues unabated. At present, we live under economic conditions, known as neo-liberal consumer capitalism, that promote self-interest rather than consideration of others. Unfortunately, since the […]

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The obsession with money

Decades ago, renowned British novelist, John Fowles, wrote in a rare work of non-fiction, The Aristos, that “having, not being, governs our time”. In this sometimes startling statement of his personal philosophy, he further observed that “the great driving obsession of the last 150 years … is money”. This obsession, he further claimed, is “the […]