AGAPE consultation on Poverty, Wealth, and Ecology
“Be rich, you won’t be humane. Be humane, you won’t be rich.”
“When you unite wealth, you divide people. When you divide wealth, you united the people.”
Drawing insightful learning from the deep wells of Asian traditional wisdom, Prof. Park Seong-Won spoke at the AGAPE consultation on Poverty, Wealth, and Ecology in Asia and the Pacific which was held in Chiangmai, Thailand, from 2 to 6 November 2009.
The Chiangmai declaration of the consultation in which nearly 80 people participated said, “The neoliberal system of wealth creation and accumulation in Asia has not only produced poverty, it has generated tremendous social and ecological debts – debts owed to Mother Earth.” It also clarified that the interlinked economic and ecological crises today are manifestations of a larger ethical, moral and spiritual crisis.
Texts:
1. Chiangmai Declaration
2. Park Seong-Won’s keynote address “My giving up will be the world giving up.”
