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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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