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Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Jeremy Rifkin
Empathy, Consciousness, Biosphere
Jeremy Rifkin (2010). “The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis”, p.616, Polity

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

David Suzuki
Priorities, Should, Biosphere

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

E. O. Wilson
Dream, World, Biosphere
Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 6, 2007.

Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

David Suzuki
Economy, Currency, Biosphere

The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust.

Richard Greenberg
Ocean, Way, Biosphere
"A subsurface ocean may provide water and heat" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. February 28, 2002.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

David Suzuki
World, Biosphere, Can't Change

Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere.

David Foreman
Cancer, Biosphere, Capitalism
"Defending the Earth: Debate Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman". Book by Murray Bookchin, Dave Foreman, 1991.

Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?

George Monbiot
Easy, Biosphere, Hard
"Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

Juan Enriquez
Ecosystems, Looks, Biosphere
Source: bigthink.com

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