There’s a wonderful Greek proverb, “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.” Two millennia ago, the Greeks had the foresight and luxury of contemplating investment in our habitat as an indication of greatness. Nowadays, it is an urgent imperative for the welfare of our descendants.
Only the willfully blind do not see the unmistakable accelerating changes taking place in our environment and only those who are delusional deniers refuse to admit that the devastation is a direct cause of our abuse and over-utilization of the planet’s resources. Yes, the earth has gone through climate evolution before, but the same changes that transpired over tens of millennia are now occurring over tens of years, less than a blink of history. Nobel Laureate chemist, Paul Crutzen coined the term “Anthropocene” to designate the new, man-made, fast-moving geological age in the earth’s long history.
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