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“Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change.”

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Book:From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis

Source: From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis

“Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.”

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Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1”

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Author:Sherman Alexie

“Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.”

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Book:V is for Vengeance

Source: V is for Vengeance

“Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.”

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Book:An Oration on the Gods

Source: An Oration on the Gods