"What is success? To laugh often and much. To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children. To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty. To find the best
in others. To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or redeemed social condition. To know even one life breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1803 - 1882)
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a 78 second excerpt from Pierce Brosnan's
resounding speech from the David Attenborough film 'Grey Owl' (2000)
In 2004, a team of scientists from ten European countries completed the Vostok Ice Core study on Antarctic plateau, which revealed that the earth should be in the middle of 27,000 years of weather stability ~ we are 12,000 years along that planetary time.
Conclusion: Recorded human history covers a fractiion of this timeline. We are directly responsible for global warming and global dimming on our precious habitat. We have the resources, and by utilizing problem solving skills, such as Systems Theory, Fifth Discipline and Best Practice, we will find solutions.
Tim Flannery recently posed a provocative question: "Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth’s regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge?"
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Earth seen from 4 billion miles away, photographed by Voyager 1 on June 6, 1990.
Of the "pale blue dot," astronomer Carl Sagan said, "That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there ~ on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." >>>more back to top
