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“There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood ...in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.”

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Raj Patel

Raj Patel is a renowned journalist born in 1972. He is known for his in-depth investigative reporting and his focus on global inequality issues. more

“With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again.”

Ends Mother Dog Arms Cold Promise Graves Dawn Love Life Chests Abandoned Condolences Maternal Love

Author:Romain Gary

“Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.”

Today Wealth Existence Raised Notion Secure Primaries Passages Rite Autonomous Rite Of Passage

Book:Biosphere politics: a cultural odyssey from the middle ages to the new age

Source: Biosphere politics: a cultural odyssey from the middle ages to the new age

“Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.”

Humans Wealth Human Beings Generations Materials Machines Pursuit Transformed Relentless Material Wealth Relentless Pursuit

Book:The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

Source: The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

“Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are defining features of the emerging economic paradigm. In the new era, we each become a node in the nervous system of the biosphere.”

Earth Energy Economy Economic Resources Nervous Eras Features Fuel Transition Carbon Defining Emerging Paradigm Nervous System Renewable Energy New Era Biosphere

Book:The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

Source: The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

“Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?”

Consciousness Empathy Collapse Avert Biosphere

Book:The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

Source: The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

“The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be scientists, engineers, technicians, executives, consultants, teachers, lawyers and the like, and then somehow find the appropriate number of job openings in the very narrow high-tech sector, seems at best a pipe dream, and at worst a delusion.”

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