''This is chapter 3 of [[SolSeed: The Book of Life#The "SolSeed Gospel" according to Ben|Ben's portion of SolSeed: The Book of Life]].''
=== Redefining our priorities ===
: "Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we've got."
::: ~ Scott Carpenter, Mecury 7 astronaut, quoted at http://spacequotations.com/earth.html
Imagine a world where society measures its success not by abstract economic indicators like Gross Domestic Product, but by measures of people's happiness and fulfillment, ecosystem health, and so forth. A world where you ask not what you can do for your country, but what both you ''and'' your country can do in the service of people and ecosystems everywhere. A world where technology is neither idolized nor demonized, where every technology is studied carefully to weigh its costs and benefits to all living things.