The Practical Peacemaker: How Simple Living Makes Peace Possible

How Simple Living Makes Peace Possible. Kate Lawrence The Practical Peacemaker shows how compassionate people concerned about violence, inequity.
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He walked the talk in his personal life as well; he refused to travel by horse or mule-drawn conveyance, which meant that everywhere he went in London, he walked. Horses— numbering in the hundreds of thousands—who pulled carriages, wagons and streetcars, were often whipped and driven until they died, their needs for rest and sufficient food and water ignored in the name of profit. Beyond London, Gompertz went only to places within walking distance of a railway station.

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Everyday choices, if arising from ethical intention, can make a substantial difference. Written especially for those who have despaired of being able to make any meaning The Practical Peacemaker shows how compassionate people concerned about violence, inequity, and environmental destruction can, by living simply, transform their lives into an effective statement for peace.

Written especially for those who have despaired of being able to make any meaningful response, The Practical Peacemaker empowers as it outlines a broader vision than has been articulated by previous books on simple living. To become peacemakers, we need to pay as much attention to what is happening in our thinking as we do to downsizing our budget or clearing our clutter.


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    4. The book examines such peace-destroying personal habits as careless eating and drinking, overbusy schedules, seeking instant gratification, and anger. It goes on to consider societal obstacles to peace, such as advertising, media saturation, rudeness, prejudice, environmental degradation, and overpopulation. At both the personal and societal levels, readers are shown specific positive actions they can take, without waiting for others to change, which will further the cause of peace in themselves and in the world. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

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    To ask other readers questions about Practical Peacemaker , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jul 12, Bob Stocker rated it really liked it. Everyone recognizes that the resource is being used up, but people are unwilling to reduce their use of the resource because someone else will surely use whatever they don't.

    The tragedy continues until the resource is exhausted or everyone's behavior is changed either by the imposition of external controls or by changes in people's attitudes. Though not cast is this way, Kate Lawrence's book The Practical Peacemaker is, at least in part, an attempt to save the commons that all of us on Planet Earth share by changing people's attitudes. Her suggestions are practical — things that each of us can do.

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    Her hope that peace and goodness will catch on if we set good examples for our fellow humans may be less practical. Fortunately, striving to live a life that has less impact on our commons, the Earth, may have its own rewards. Practical Peacemaker is a thin volume pages , and several of its points feel abbreviated. Many of these could have been expanded. I wanted to read more of what Lawrence has to say; she astutely puts into words what I'm certain many of us feel.

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    Everyday choices, if arising from ethical intention, can make a substantial difference. Written especially for those who have despaired of being able to make any meaningful response, The Practical Peacemaker empowers as it outlines a broader vision than has been articulated by previous books on simple living.