"All we need is love" to quote a familiar Beatles tune. I think this is right... love is all we need. If we truly loved one another and our neighbor as ourself (which many faiths call their followers to do), we wouldn't want them to be hungry or homeless, to be taken advantage of in the labor market , or to enter into conflict against them. To love means sacrificing some of what we personally get, have or do, so that our beloved has some of what they need. Herein is part of the problem, of course, too many people have a need to take care of ourselves and our own before and sometimes instead of our neighbor.

In addition, we are called to love the earth, the lovely globe we call home. Loving the earth requires some sacrifice as well, a difficult thing for many. Turning off lights, saving energy, living more simply and lightly on the earth, being careful not to put harmful chemicals on the landscape lest it wash into the water system, etc. are all ways we can love the earth.

" The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected, like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle