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“In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.”

Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth

“It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.”

Order Attention Gains Environmental Favors Undivided Attention

Author:Ian McHarg

“While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.”

People Ifs Attention Consciousness Practice Fronts Pages Bases Crisis Climate Environmental Fishes

Author:Daniel Pauly

“The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.”

Whole Attention Environment Fields Environmental Invisible

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. No nation or business sector can ignore the ethical implications present in all economic and social development. With increasing clarity scientific research demonstrates that the impact of human actions in any one place or region can have worldwide effects.”

“... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not better, so the optimum scale of human economy in relation to the total economy becomes basically a question of sustainability. When the effects of the economy on the environment undercut the possibility of its own continuance, the scale is too large.”

Humans Whole Earth Attention Economy Environment Economic Effects Possibility Activity Bigger Relation Environmental Scales Sustainability Continuance Optimum Undercut

Book:Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy

Source: Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy

“The aspects of global warming that matter most to people - how rapidly will the seas rise? Are hurricanes already getting stronger? How strong will they get as a result of warming? Those are still immersed in complexity. So in those realms that catch people's attention most, or that get used as symbols by environmental campaigners, those facets really do come with significant back-and-forthing.”

People Stills Matter Used Strong Results Attention Sea Aspect Stronger Environmental Significant Symbols Realms Complexity Global Warming Hurricanes Facets Strong Will Getting Stronger

Author:Andrew Revkin

“I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.”

I Can Reason Stories Hate Attention Risk Media Fit Environmental Journalism Reason Why Conventional Norm Adequate

Author:Andrew Revkin