1. The current leading-edge social movements are peace, feminist, ecology, and ecofeminism2. These movements draw from very ancient traditions only now being reclaimed due to a veritable 3. Ancient societies were structured very much like the more peaceful and just society we are now 4. In these ancient societies, women were subordinate to men and they saw the Earth as an object for5. The most important human invention--the development of the technology to domesticate plants--6. The basic technologies on which civilization is based were developed in societies that were not7. In ancient cultures women traditionally held key public positions, as shamans or wise women and8. The way a society structures the most fundamental human relations--the relations between female9. In the Genesis story, the punishment of Eve for her refusal to acknowledge Jehovah's monopoly of10. In ancient cultures, if men did not dominate women, then women must have dominated men.11. What we have until now been taught as history is only the history of dominator species--the12. Minoan Crete was unique in that it was both a male-dominant and warlike culture.13. It is science and technology, not the numbing of our innate human sensibilities, that makes it
14. The rationale behind the current model of global development was first advanced by U.S.
15. Nations unquestionably fall into one of three neat categories--developed, underdeveloped, or
16. All the people of the world are climbing up the same economic ladder, some slow, some faster,
17. A country's level of civilization is based on its ability to produce material goods--that is, to
18. The gap between the so-called underdeveloped and developed countries has widened, with
19. Multinational companies generally ask the local people for permission to profit from its
20. Capitalism has established a global, human security policy, to bring about human rights, peace
21. Free markets are the most efficient and socially optimal way to allocate resources.
22. The moral perversity of capitalism is most evident in what it views as economic success in a world
23. Capitalism must be abandoned, and new models must be formulated, informed by the traditions
24. The accelerated accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few, has caused both economic
25. Spiritual progress subsumes material development, as people cannot pursue spiritual growth