By The Union of Concerned Scientists — 2012
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In a society increasingly driven by science and technology, world religions and the communities they inspire remain a vast and rock-solid political force.
Thinking more explicitly about cultural catalysis can help to accomplish in years what otherwise would require decades or not take place at all. As we experiment with cultural catalysis, we need to make it fast and benign rather than fast and pathological for the common good.
Pope Francis has declared a global “climate emergency,” warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations.”
Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy from "The Work That Reconnects", talking about the concept of a Great Turning.