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“Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?”

Stills Real Would Be Hours Challenges Fate Growing Dangerous Illusion Universal Crisis Threat Climate Environmental Rising Sustainability Immense Penalties 11th Hour

Author:Al Gore

“A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.”

Our Lives Events Illusion Crisis Anchors

Author:Robert Veninga

“When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.”

Men World Focus Stage Illusion Concern Crisis

Book:Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s

Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s

“[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to foresee the crisis that awaits her when she recognizes how meaningless are those male occupations for which she has fought, when the illusions and the euphoria of her conquests vanish, and when she realizes that, given the climate of dissolution, family and children can no longer give her a sense of satisfaction in life.”

“The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a delusion of the monotheistic mind. . . Authenticity is in the illusion, playing it, seeing through it from within as we play it, like an actor who sees through his mask and can only see in this way.”

Way Mind Self Play Actors Seeing Identity Illusion Crisis Authenticity Mask Delusion Divided Identity Crisis

Book:Healing fiction

Source: Healing fiction

“After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.”

World Should Facts Accepting Happened Illusion Crisis

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“I think people should have no illusions that Hillary [Clinton] is going to solve the climate crisis for us. We are in as much trouble with fracking as we are with coal. They both need to be stopped.”

People Thinking Needs Should Trouble Illusion Should Have Crisis Clinton Climate Solve Coal Fracking

Author:Jill Stein

“My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.”

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Author:Decca Aitkenhead