“What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.” NeedsGivingForceGonePlanetsMessagesFinite Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.” IfsWritingFirstsChildrenBookHelpingShowsLinesCasesPlanetsReturnBedOfficeComputerRootsTinyMy ChildrenDietsIf I CouldArrivingMitLife Line Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.” KnowsFeelsPlanetsLateThreatDietsTeens Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.” PeopleFirstsHumansRealEarthTimeChoicesCommunityAlivePlanetsRevolutionDignitySpeciesExtraordinaryKillingTiesContinentsOur PlanetEmergingNestsHuman DignityBiodiversityKnittingKilling Each OtherChoose LifeWiping Out Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.” NeedsReasonShowsFacesSocialChallengesCompassionPlanetsExpressionEmpathyCapacityPhilosopherDenyMapsCooperationFairnessDominantBreakthroughOur PlanetHunchesPandemicsFromm Author:Frances Moore Lappé