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D. C. Wilkinson's avatar

Greed is at the center of the dream-turned-nightmarescenario we live in. The accumulation of wealth and power without limits on a global scale is the current model. The consequences of this unsustainable system are the destruction of our habitat and, eventually, the end of civilization as we know it. The alarms have been sounding everywhere but, apparently, not loud enough for people to notice.

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Clarke Fountain's avatar

It's counsel for the ages: no matter what calamity occurs, your values should be a guide for your action. If you don't like the people in power, well, there's always someone in power not to like. But your actions, small as they may seem to you, can engender a kind of compound interest and affect the wider world in ways you can't imagine. And to take a page from your statements heretofore, there's some good in everyone, you just have to look for it and speak to that. It's hard, very hard, not to be thrown from your seat, especially if you care a great deal, but your job, our job, is to respond from a centered place, not carrying on as if nothing has happened, but carrying on nonetheless. Courage!

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