Only Compassion Will Save Us on the Brink of Systems Collapse

From politics to health care to economics, a rising movement is calling for compassion as a remedy for systems on the brink. 

Dr. James Doty, director of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, puts it bluntly: “Compassion is what’s going to save our species. . . . But the reality is that for our species to survive, we have to recognize we are all one and everyone deserves the right to dignity, the right to food, the right to security, to shelter and to health care. And until we go on a path toward that world view, we are doomed.”

Here is the link to the full article in the July 2019 issue of Maclean's magazine: Click here.