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It could be said that real change to the way we relate to Earth is not possible within the frame of Capitalism – that Capitalism is essentially a “consumer faith”, which will continue to create wastelands and dis-order our minds. Humans may need to re-imagine Life without money, to enable us to get back to relationship with our Place. So I think this book, just published may be helpful:

Life Without Money edited by Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman.

Of course women have worked for millennia without money for their generativity … so actually have a lot to contribute to a re-think of the situation. For instance, check out Genevieve Vaughn’s The Gift Economy and also there is a relevant article in The Monthly Review this month: Women, Labor, and Capital Accumulation in Asia.

Susan Meeker-Lowry has written a bit about all of this kind of thing some time back ( Economics As If the Earth Really Mattered 1988 and a couple of books in 1995): her books at Amazon