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The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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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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much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).
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