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Kyoto questions the philosophies underpinning societies such as America and Australia, which cling to the myth of limitless growth.

— Tim Flannery The Weather Makers (2005)

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Some time this century, the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural factors.

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In our Gaian world, everything is connected to and influences everything else.

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Nothing in predictive climate science is more certain than the extinction of many of the world’s mountain-dwelling species.

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If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.

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Coal fires are a notorious risk for coalmines. In North America whole towns have had to be relocated because of fires that have been uncontrollable.”

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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