Any System, Biological, Economic, Or Social, That

Speak The Truth. Speak It Loud And Often, Calmly But Insistently, And Speak It, As The Quakers Say, To Power. Material Accumulation Is Not The Purpose Of Human Existence. All Growth Is Not Good. The Environment Is A Necessity, Not A Luxury. There Is Such A Thing As Enough.

There Are No Separate Systems. The World Is A Continuum. Where To Draw A Boundary Around A System Depends On The Purpose Of The Discussion.

Any System, Biological, Economic, Or Social, That Gets So Encrusted That It Cannot Self-evolve, A System That Systematically Scorns Experimentation And Wipes Out The Raw Material Of Innovation, Is Doomed Over The Long Term On This Highly Variable Planet.

I Call The Transformed World Toward Which We Can Move ‘sustainable,’ By Which I Mean A Great Deal More Than A World That Merely Sustains Itself Unchanged. I Mean A World That Evolves, As Life On Earth Has Evolved For Three Billion Years, Toward Ever Greater Diversity, Elegance, Beauty, Self-awareness, Interrelationship, And Spiritual Realization.

Scientists Worldwide Agree That The Reduction Needed To Stabilize The Climate Is Actually More Like 80 Percent.