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“The world has a very serious problem, my friend’ Shiva went on. ‘Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich — like me — live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we’re pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though…”

- Ramez Naam,

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“We’ve got to hope that somehow it’s all going to come together,” Paul Crump, a herpetologist from the Houston Zoo who was directing the stalled waterfall project, told me. “We’ve got to hope that something will happen, and we’ll be able to piece it all together, and it will all be as it once was, which now that I say it out loud sounds kind of stupid.”

- Elizabeth Kolbert,

Tag: environmental-degradation, extinction, hope,

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“At times there’s something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?”

- Arundhati Roy,

Tag: arundhati-roy, capitalism, corporations, dam, economics, environmental-degradation, equality, exploitation, false-gods, government, government-corruption, human-rights, india, inspirational, narmada-valley, nationalism, reality, truth, women,

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“God’s will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.”

- Sarah Palin

Tag: christianity, environmental-degradation, god, industry, palinisms, prayer, religion,

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