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If you're looking ecologically, then we are in very big trouble, yes. But if you're talking about people sinking, I'm not so sure that's true. There are cycles of rise and fall, as there have been since time immemorial.
Jean Houston
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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
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