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The Better World We know is Possible
“The artist does not simply hold a mirror to society. If the world now is greedy, the artist must be generous. If there is war and hate, he must be peaceful and loving. If the world is insane, he must offer sanity, and if the world is becoming a void, he must fill it with his soul.” — Russell Chatham
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[W]e brought this entire pandemic on ourselves. The scientists studying these zoonotic diseases — the ones that jump from an animal to a person — have been telling us for a long time that this pandemic was coming and it won’t be the last, and it’s entirely because of our disrespect for animals and the natural world.”
“The women — particularly the women — take out tiny loans for their own environmentally sustainable projects, like getting a few chickens, selling the eggs, having tree nurseries, sometimes a slightly bigger project like shade-grown coffee plantation or pineapples, or something like that,” Goodall explains. “And because it’s not just a grant given to them, but it’s a loan, when they pay it back — and they do — now it’s theirs. They’ve done it by their own hard work. It started with 12 villages around Gombe. It’s now in 104 throughout the whole of chimp range.”
The program is now active in more than 86 countries and has hundreds of thousands of groups, with members in kindergarten, at university…
