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Can We Save Planet Earth?
Maybe we can’t.
Perhaps Global Warming is happening regardless of our presence here.
Or maybe our presence does contribute to it, but the only way to make a real impact – to stop global warming or even just to slow it down – is to live a life that we can’t live anymore, a life that we don’t want to live – a life without automobiles, airplanes or any other type of polluting, energy-consuming industry.
Can humanity go back to being a non-industrialized society?
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R.I.P Phoebe Prince, Or: Why Do People Bully?
Ever since I first heard about Phoebe Prince, a teenager who was harassed so badly at school that she put an end to her own life, I can’t stop thinking about it – not just about Prince’s heartbreaking story, or about the reports that the bullies are not even showing remorse, or about other teenagers who had committed suicide following ruthless bullying.
I think about that, of course, but mostly I’ve been thinking about the question that obviously bothers many other people – why DO people bully?
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The End Of Racial Segregation?
I am sitting here at the local park and enjoying the sun. The weather is beautiful, and I’m saying a silent “thank you” for living in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area of California. The kids are playing happily, climbing and jumping and running. I sit there, melting in the warm rays of the sun, feeling relaxed and happy. And then, as I watch the kids playing, I realize that what I’m seeing is beautiful – far more beautiful than just kids playing, or green grass or a bright sunny day: what I’m witnessing is racial blindness, color blindness, complete racial integration – and the best of all: while I’m aware of what I’m seeing, the kids are not even aware that they are playing with kids who are “different.”
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