All the pathways of this book seem to be converging inescapably on the question of values. It turns out to be the crunch point. I haven’t manipulated it that way. In fact, if I could have avoided a values discussion, the book would have been simpler to write. I am conscious of being no more of an ethics professor than I am an economist. But the evidence is pointing towards some values that will help us live well in the Anthropocene, and others that won’t. So, I write this section from a pragmatic perspective. I’m simply asking which values will and which values won’t allow people and planet to thrive in the twenty-first century, and how we can end up with the right ones. Luckily, it turns out that our values are something we can actually shape if we want to.1