1. You say that money needs a transformation with a profound effect from profanity to sacredness. What’s behind the concept of Sacred Economics?
The book starts with the
observation that money is not aligned with what is becoming sacred to us, for
example ecological healing and social justice. In the past, we have just taken
that opposition for granted. We assumed that goodness, sacredness, and so forth
were outside the money realm, that holy people don't have much to do with
money. But this is no longer sustainable, because the behavior that money
drives is destroying the planet. We need to change the nature of money, so that
it is no longer the enemy of sustainability, not to mention the sacred. The
book describes how we got to our current state of a crisis that won't quite go
away, and how we can change the money system and the economy that embeds it. It
also explores the personal and community dimensions of this transition.