Change the Story, Change the Future, David C. Korten
Change the Story, Change the Future, David C. Korten
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Change the Story, Change the Future
A Living Economy for a Living Earth

Author: David C. Korten

Narrator: Dana Hickox

Unabridged: 3 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/01/2015


Synopsis

We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society set us on a path to certain self-destruction. In this profound new book, Korten shares the results of his search for a story that reflects the fullness of human knowledge and understanding and provides a guide to action adequate to the 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. Earth is simply a source of raw materials. 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 Sacred Life and Living Earth story 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 depend on an economy that works in partnership with the processes by which Earth's community of life maintains the conditions of its own existence—and ours. Offering a hopeful vision, Korten lays out the transformative impact adopting this story will have on every aspect of human life and society.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Naum

I heard NN Taleb once say that authors rarely branch out onto new topics, that instead, they just iterate, refine, evolve a grand idea that is their life's mission, overarching question or riddle. And that is apt for David Korten, who continues in the same vein as in *When Corporations Rule the Worl......more

Goodreads review by Camille

This is a very important book. I hope that it reaches a wide audience. David Korten makes a very clear argument about the importance of changing the meta narrative "sacred money and markets" to one under which humanity can actually continue to exist on planet earth.......more

Goodreads review by Paul

For many years, the world has been operating under a Story (or Narrative) that governs many aspects of daily life. It's all about money and markets, and it goes something like this: "Money equals happiness. Those who have a lot of money are to be admired and revered. Those who don't have a lot of mo......more