The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.
No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.
Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize.
Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.
God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
. . . it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.