For thousands of years, small communities of people ensured relative tranquillity while providing for the social needs of their members. the explosive rate at which our species has been converted to an urban creature has been accompanied by a deterioration of the social fabric that held people together. the twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented shift from predominantly rural community living to big city living. in cities, distanced from nature and the primary means of production like agriculture, fishing, logging and even manufacturing, we accept that it is the conomy that provides our needs, technology has enabled us to travel rapidly and communicate over vast distances, while television, computers and portable entertainment devices sever the shared activities with neighbours and communities. consumerism has taken the place of citizenship as the chief way we contribute to the health of our society. economic rather than social goals drive governmnet and corporate policies. the resulting high levels of unemployment produce stress, illness, and family and community breakdown. stable communities and neighbourhoods are a prerequisite for happiness, for productive and rewarding lives, for a crucial sense of security and belonging. they are a bottom line for the health and happiness of human beings, it is not economics that creates community but love, compassion and cooperation. those qualities exist in individuals and are expressed between people. and they cannot be fully expressed in isolation, without context, cut off from their place in time and space, their source in the natural world.
-David Suzuki
taken from The Sacred Balance
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