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Introduction Conundrum, Challenge, and Choice

In: Learning Toward an Ecological Consciousness: Selected Transformative Practices

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  • Edmund V. O’Sullivan
  • Marilyn M. Taylor

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We live in a time of great possibilities and also of grave dangers; both arising from the same capability of our species to pursue effectively, single-mindedly, its goals. Three hundred years of technological advance and extension of our basic physical abilities has resulted in our ability to reach most parts of the planet within 24 hours, communicate instantly through cyberspace to anywhere on the globe, visually apprehend events as they occur around the world within minutes, launch disaster relief in one part of the world from any other part of the world within a day, walk on the moon and maneuver in space, provide every child on earth with vaccines and other medicine that eliminate most life-threatening and debilitating childhood diseases, and produce food on a scale that can now eliminate starvation. And the list of benefits goes on.

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  • Edmund V. O’Sullivan & Marilyn M. Taylor, 2004. "Introduction Conundrum, Challenge, and Choice," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Edmund V. O’Sullivan & Marilyn M. Taylor (ed.), Learning Toward an Ecological Consciousness: Selected Transformative Practices, pages 1-4, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-73178-7_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-73178-7_1
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