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“If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?”

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Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal, born Muhammad El-Hassan Abdul-Jamal, is an American journalist and activist. He was convicted of murder but many supporters believe he is innocent. Abu-Jamal continues his journalism work and advocacy for human rights from prison. more

“If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"”

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“It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.”

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Book:The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

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“It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.”

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Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“No one "discovers" the future. The future is not a discovery. The future is not a destiny. The future is a decision, an intervention. Do nothing and we drift fatalistically into a future not driven by technology alone, but by other people's need, greed, and creed. The future is not some dim and distant region out there in time. The future is a reality that is coming to pass with each passing day, with each passing decision.”