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December 14, 2017 - February 10, 2018
In such a time, opting to pause and reflect, rather than panic or withdraw, is a necessity.
the rate of technological change is now accelerating so fast that it has risen above the average rate at which most people can absorb all these changes. Many of us cannot keep pace anymore.
After scientists discovered an ever-widening ozone hole caused by man-made chemicals—chlorofluorocarbons—the world got together and implemented the Montreal Protocol in 1989, banning CFCs, and, as a result, the ozone layer remains safely inside its planetary boundary of losses not greater than 5 percent from preindustrial levels.
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If horses could have voted there never would have been cars.
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It’s as if we agreed that we are here to talk at each other instead of talking with each other.
We cannot put every Humpty Dumpty state back together again—on our own. And we cannot find every needle, every super-empowered angry person, in a haystack before it sticks us—on our own.
But today we live in a postimperial and a postcolonial world. No great power wants to occupy anybody. As we’ve seen, the major powers have all learned the hard way that when you occupy another country all that you win is a bill.
This is an idea that actually originated with African leaders. It’s called “the Great Green Wall”: a ribbon of land restoration projects stretching across the entire southern edge of the Sahara, to hold the desert back—and help anchor people in the communities where they actually want to live.
it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.
Alas, not every culture is able to deal with contact with strangers by swallowing its pride the way the Japanese did and vacuuming up everything they can learn from the stranger as fast as they can.
The G.O.P. used to be an incredibly rich polyculture. It gave us ideas as diverse as our national parks (under Theodore Roosevelt), the Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Air and Clean Water Acts (under Richard Nixon), radical nuclear arms control and the Montreal Protocol to close the ozone hole (under Ronald Reagan), cap-and-trade to curb acid rain (under George H. W. Bush), and market-based health care reform (under Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts). And
God is always hidden, whether in cyberspace or in the neighborhood shopping mall, and to have God in the room with you, whether it’s a real room or a chat room, you have to bring Him there yourself by how you behave there, by the moral choices and mouse clicks you make.
World Faith, a global interfaith movement.
It was a powerful lesson in community for me: When you are in a real one, never, ever say to someone in need: “Call me if you need help.” If you want to help someone, just do it.
something similar unfolding throughout our society. “Today, people of affluence and people of modest means live increasingly separate lives. We live and work and shop and play in different places. We send our kids to different schools. I call this the ‘skyboxification of American life.’
“Littering has two parents—the guy who dropped it and the guy who walked past it.
The city provides two-to-three-thousand-dollar-a-year grants to each neighborhood to create its own neighborhood board and hold picnics and other events to create a spirit of inclusion, such as carving out a neighborhood garden or green space.
Democrats and Republicans were treating each other just as Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Persians, Israelis and Palestinians did—self-segregating, assuming the worst of each other, and, lately, shockingly, never wanting one of their kids to marry one of “them.”
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