Choosing Wisdom | February 2, 2015
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all likelihood, the environmental crises we will encounter in the
coming decades and probably centuries will bring great upheavals and
immense suffering. It is all so hard to wrap one’s mind around because
the problem is unprecedented in magnitude. At the same time, we have the
whole history of human wisdom to draw upon in making our choices and
taking action. The defining question of our age will be how we meet the
calamities we will face, and how we will act to mitigate them and find
our virtue in confronting them. The stakes couldn’t be higher, yet as
human beings, we are not only expert in creating misery, we are also
expert in working to resolve it. Both legacies, and the ability to
choose which to follow, belong to us.
- James Shaheen, "Choosing Wisdom in the Face of Peril"
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