I am stoked for this. This is my favorite part of the entire show.
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?. . . In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.
Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?
After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).
It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.
When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense. . . it just reacts.
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.