FRITJOF CAPRA: In your latest book, EcoMind, you pose the question, "Is there a way of perceiving the environmental challenge that is at once hardheaded, evidence based, and invigorating?" And then you write, "I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down." ...
FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ: It was a totally unplanned book, and it has changed my life. ...
I asked whether we could break through to more of an ecological way of seeing and feeling. ...
We should not bless what we're doing now with the term "growth." We should call it what it is, an economy of waste and destruction. ...
The challenge is ... "How do we remake our human-made systems to align positively with what we know creates sustainable and resilient communities?" ...
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