Rainbow: Resources For Appropriate Technology

“New dreams are possible. The Golden Age of almost every society in history has occurred not when all a culture’s energies were focused on increasing its wealth and power, but rather when the attainable limits of those dreams were reached and people realized that such goals had not left them with the quality, beauty or personal happiness they had envisioned. A careful analysis of the balance sheet can reveal today, as it has in the past, that vast resources of society are being channeled into now unattainable and undesired visions—resources which can be rechanneled toward new ends. Once we realize that greatness is not achievable through great expenditures of resources but requires the development and refinement of our own personal abilities, we discover that our present wealth is more than adequate to achieve an equitable and golden age for the whole world.”