In keeping with the dialogue of a previous post, we found this:
"Like me, you'd like to see a renaissance occur in which 'we will stop destroying the planet.' But this renaissance is not going to occur among people who imagine that humans belong to a species that is separate from the rest of the living community (and who therefore think, for example, that the mass extinctions we are bringing about are sad but not really life-threatening). Until they know--with the same certainty that they know the earth is round--that humans are intimately bound up with (and completely dependent on) the rest of the living community, why would they stop destroying the planet? You can't force them to stop; you can't make them stop by passing laws or by shooting them. Once their minds are changed they WILL stop, just as back in the fifteenth century mariners stopped worrying about sailing off the edge of the earth."
--Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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