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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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