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This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.
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When we say we have hit the limits, we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.
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On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But our social nature also means that we may let ourselves be controlled by the judgments of others, precisely because we care so much about our status in community.
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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious.
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I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descartes' statement, I think, therefore I am and changes it to I effect, therefore I am.
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I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.
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There are surprising turning points there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.
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Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say no, thanks to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.
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[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.
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The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.
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What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.
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Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.
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Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
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If we start with limits and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.
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Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.
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Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
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What has dawned on me is that focusing on the finite planet frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.
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A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.
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