Vicki Robin is co-author with the late Joe Dominguez of Your Money or Your Life and co-founder of the New Road Map Foundation. Her theme on this hour-long interview with Michael Toms is freedom. Robin believes that the more-is-better concept that underlies consumerism has led to the increasing gap between the rich and the poor. Sustainability offers a viable alternative with enough-is-enough. Robin supports the ideal of social capital, which is built upon sharing systems such as bartering. It is an alternative to "wage slavery."
Although most Americans cringe at the idea of limits put upon their freedom, Robin is convinced that we will need four planets to live on if the rest of the countries of the world begin to consume as much as Americans do. It is time for us to become reacquainted with the spiritual practice of restraint — used by all the religions. These recipes for sustainability add up to saner and wiser ways to live.
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