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The Quaker Institute of the Future (QIF) launched the Moral Economy Project (MEP) in 2005 to address Friends' concerns about the human prospect in a world of unbridled growth and increasing ecological degradation. The central effort of MEP has been the drafting of a book, Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, February 2009) on how to work toward a moral economy.
Most people have been conditioned to accept the operation of the economy as an article
of faith. Unlimited growth and wealth accumulation are seen as the
"natural law" of the economy and nothing can be done to alter this fact
-- even if it means the integrity of Earth's ecological and social
systems are severely damaged in the process. This "inconvenient truth"
is now a moral challenge. We are faced with a choice: bring the economy
into right relationship with the planet and its inhabitants, or suffer
the consequences -- the increasing destruction of Earth's life support
systems and social structures.


