Helena Norberg-Hodge directs the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) and is the author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. This piece was adapted from "Compassion in the Age of the Global Economy," excerpted in the anthology The Psycology of Awakening: Buddhism, Science, and Our Day-to-Day Lives (Samuel Weiser, USA & Rider, UK). Reprinted with permission of the publisher and copyright © 2000 Helena Norberg-Hodge.