Trees for beef: slashing rainforests so Americans can have a 99-cent burger
"Overpopulation are the primary factors leading to the destruction of these forests,..we have less oxygen-releasing leaf surface, less circulation in the water cycles, and increased desertification, while at the same time the burning puts more carbon into the atmosphere." (p.46, 50)
Change the Story
"Culture is not about what is absolute, real, or true. It's about what a group of people agrees to believe. Culture can be healthy or toxic, nurturing or murderous. Culture is made of stories... In changing the stories of our culture, we may find a way to help solve some of the problems we've seen so far." (p.164)
The lives of Ancient People
" In their Older Culture, they value community. Most "modern" people find it difficult or impossible to imagine a world where community is more important then possessions, yet this is how about 1 percent of the world's population still lives, and how all of yours and my ancestors lived for 100,000 years." (p.188)
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