"No generation has ever faced a more daunting agenda than those who will become adults in this decade and the next. They will have to do what we, the present generation, have been unable or unwilling to do: stabilize world population, reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that threaten to change the climate-perhaps disastrously, protect biological diversity now declining at an estimated 100-200 species per day, reverse the destruction of rainforests (both tropical and temperate), and conserve soils being eroded at a fast rate. They must learn how to use energy and materials efficiently. They must learn how to use solar energy. They must rebuild the economy in order to eliminate waste and pollution. They must learn how to conserve resources for the long-term. They must begin the great work of repairing, as much as possible the damage done to the earth in the past 200 years of industrialization. And they must do all of this while reducing poverty and egregious social inequities. No generation has ever faced a more daunting challenge."
Dr. David Orr and Dr. John Todd
Vision Statement from their paper on Ecological Design Arts
"A new era in human development is not going to arise because government decreed it, or because a few companies change their strategies. It will happen because a diffuse and diverse critical mass of people and organizations decide to live and act differently as parents, as professionals, and as leaders, as suppliers and as customers, as citizens and as entrepreneurs, as friends and as colleagues, as teachers and as students.
Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
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