We can challenge ourselves - shed our complacency and love of ease - and so reinvigorate our shrivelled virtues. Thats what a well-rounded education is supposed to do, and even those with the most repepetitive jobs can in their leisure hours expand their minds. But while we sit in our air-conditioned homes and eat, drink and make merry like like cattle in a feedlot without the slightest thought about the consequences of our consumption of water, food and energy, we only hasten the destruction - in the long term - of our kind. Tim Flannery, in Here on Earth.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 22:30:05 +0000
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