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The Anthropocene
Humanity is, in one way or another, becoming a self-conscious, active agent in the operation of its own life support system.
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Questions That Inspire Fresh Thinking
“Are humans now overwhelming the great forces of nature?” ask Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen and John McNeill.
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60 Years Ago: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages.
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Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Prize | Nobelprize.org
Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings. There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore those who have power and influence can also stop them.
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Yochai Benkler: Complexity and Humanity | Free Souls
To deal with the new complexity of contemporary life we need to re-introduce the human into the design of systems.
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Oliver Morton: Not-So-Lonely Planet | NYT
In its duration, as opposed to its diameter, the Earth demands to be measured on a cosmic scale.
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Tim O'Reilly: Thinking About Wendell Berry's "In Distrust of Movements"
The essence of Berry's argument is that we as a culture need to get away from single-issue movements to fix this or that.
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Stewart Brand: We Are as Gods | Whole Earth
Credit where it's due: I stole the line, from page one, chapter one of A Runaway World? by British anthropologist Edmund Leach.
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Andy Revkin: Could Energy Success Backfire in the End?
Does a shift in values and aspirations have to accompany technological leaps?
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Amartya Sen: The Power of a Declaration | TNR
How has a collection of words made a difference to the deliberations and actions of people across the world?
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What Would It Look Like? | Global Oneness Project
This 25-minute video asks us to reflect on the state of the world and ourselves.
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From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds
There is opportunity for exploratory experiment if the experiments are designed to have low costs of failure.
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Climate Change Changes Everything
A discipline-by-discipline tally of assumptions altered and challenges encountered.
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Climate Change and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
What does it mean to share the obligations of citizenship with all of humanity?
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Stuart Kauffman: The Open Universe and the Sacred
I’m going to talk about a sense of God that I think is sharable.
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Orland Bishop and Global Oneness | Real Change News
How do I have to be, in order for you to be free?
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The Work of a Writer in a World of Wounds
To know what are our responsibilities, we must ask, what are our gifts?
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Rich Heffern on Thomas Berry | National Catholic Reporter
Fr. Berry asked: What sense does it make to have healthy humans living on a terminally ill planet?
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Mike Hulme: Why We Disagree about Climate Change
Our engagement with climate change and the disagreements that it spawns should always be a form of enlightenment.
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Archbishop of Canterbury: Renewing the Face of the Earth
Renewing the face of the earth is an enterprise of living in such a way as to bring more clearly to light the interconnectedness of all things and their dependence on what we cannot finally master or understand.
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