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The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

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Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.

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When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.

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We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.

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Trees are being saved because of the Kindle.

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Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.

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We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.

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We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We're awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela.

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When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.

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Yes, population is a huge problem - birth rates are too high. And in order to take care of the environment, we have to make sure that every child that comes here, that arrives, knows that he or she is welcome, is going to be cared for and honored.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: February 8th, 1946

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