It is no longer possible to ignore that this planet is a finite resource. In our future as a human species we are bound together, worldwide, with each other and with the ‘real global economy’ of a fragile natural environment. With quiet urgency and deep honesty Pan Lunn addresses the unsustainability of the way we all live in the industrialised West, but this is not a counsel of despair or guilt. Realistic and well informed about the evolutionary basis of co-operation as well as the spiritual dimension, she puts forward an unsentimental argument for the possibility as well as the necessity of community.