Jared Diamond, the distinguished Professor of Geography at the UCLA gave the Lewis Thomas Prize Lecture at the Rockefeller Institute, NYC, on March 27, 2003, on “Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions” and destroy themselves. This work is also published in his book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Penguin Book. The references to the US…
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“For if this is what is done to green wood, what will be done when the wood is dry?”
On Palm Sunday, in the Passion Reading of Luke’s Gospel (23:1-49), Jesus makes an analogy to the treatment to Himself with our fragile Earth that is so evocative as to be worthy of a quotation about our environment (23:28-31) But Jesus turned to them and said, ‘Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep rather for…