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EARTH
FOR THE FUTURE
AA: What can an ordinary person here in the United States
do?
PR:
An ordinary person in the United States can think carefully
about their own surroundings, how to preserve the biodiversity
that occurs around them, because the world that results will
be a patchwork- some parts will be better than others, some
parts will be worse. So the first thing you can do is take
care of your own village, town, city, state, as well as you
can. Keep it as beautiful, as natural, with as much variability
and as much diversity as you can. That means getting engaged
in the political process. It's a pure tragedy that people
in the United States living in the greatest democracy on Earth
refuse in such large numbers to be involved in the political
process, to say what it is that they want to happen.
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The first thing you can do is take care of your own
village, town, city, state, as well as you can.
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Another
very important thing that we can do in the United States,
which after all is both the wealthiest and the most wasteful
country that's ever existed in the history of the Earth, is
learn how to live more conservatively. It's very doubtful
that we in the United States gain anything in our degree of
prosperity or enjoyment of life by burning twice as much energy
per capita as they do in Sweden or Switzerland or Germany.
That means to me that there's lots of room to save and to
be efficient about our lives. We can support organizations
that are acting in ways that we would want them to act. Some
people say, 'Ah, the environmentalists. They're much too radical
for me.' Well, there are environmental groups of every shade
of opinion, and every shade of political philosophy and you
can find one that you'll be comfortable with or you can create
one that you'll be comfortable with and then you can support
it.
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If
there would be a single thing that we could do to support
global sustainability in the future, it would be to bring
our fellow citizens and ourselves to our senses about the
fact that we live on a single planet Earth, with magnificent
diversity, run by people in something like 200 different nations,
and that we all are managing this beautiful planet together.
Photos:Conservation
International
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