There Have Been High Crimes

Denmark, The Netherlands And Germany Have Detailed Plans To Cut Their Greenhouse Emissions By 20 To 50 Percent.

I Call The Transformed World Toward Which We Can Move ‘sustainable,’ By Which I Mean A Great Deal More Than A World That Merely Sustains Itself Unchanged. I Mean A World That Evolves, As Life On Earth Has Evolved For Three Billion Years, Toward Ever Greater Diversity, Elegance, Beauty, Self-awareness, Interrelationship, And Spiritual Realization.

No One Can Define Or Measure Justice, Democracy, Security, Freedom, Truth, Or Love. No One Can Define Or Measure Any Value. But If No One Speaks Up For Them, If Systems Aren’t Designed To Produce Them, If We Don’t Speak About Them And Point Toward Their Presence Or Absence, They Will Cease To Exist.

Speak The Truth. Speak It Loud And Often, Calmly But Insistently, And Speak It, As The Quakers Say, To Power. Material Accumulation Is Not The Purpose Of Human Existence. All Growth Is Not Good. The Environment Is A Necessity, Not A Luxury. There Is Such A Thing As Enough.

Models Can Easily Become So Complex That They Are Impenetrable, Unexaminable, And Virtually Unalterable.