The Power and Promise of Humane Education
Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times
Claude and Medea: The Hellburn Dogs
So, You Love Animals: An Action-Packed, Fun-Filled Book to Help Kids Help AnimalsFor my post today, I want to share Sailesh Rao’s blog post about two TED talks. Before reading Sailesh’s post, make sure to watch these two TED talks to which he refers in the first paragraph:
Paul Gilding: The Earth is Full
Peter Diamandis: Abundance is Our Future
When you’re done watching the talks, have watched the subsequent Peter/Paul debate, and have read Sailesh’s blog post, ask yourself: If you were to bring these talks and the questions and issues they raise to others to educate and launch discussion, what would you hope to achieve through such a conversation? What would you want such discussions to create? Where should we go from here?
~ Zoe
Zoe Weil, President, Institute for Humane Education
Author of Most Good, Least Harm, Above All, Be Kind, and The Power and Promise of Humane Education
My TEDxConejo talk: “Solutionaries”
My TEDxDirigo talk: “The World Becomes What You Teach“
Get tickets to the October 13 NYC performance of my 1-woman show: “My Ongoing Problems with Kindness: Confessions of MOGO Girl.”
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I have given this issue some thought as well and while I am a proponent of new technologies to help humans and the planet, I do not think that the answer lies in new technology. It lies in understanding and accepting the science that we know and making better use of technology by making them more efficient. Really, this is a roundabout way of saying that the power to save the world lies in the hands of us.
Many people in the TED audience are probably aware of the harmful role animal agriculture plays in GHG emissions, land and water pollution and resource depletion. Rather than taking action that will benefit the planet now (by adopting a plant-based diet), they are pinning the hopes on some future technology that may or may not come to pass.
We can create the abundance we seek. By occupying our plates. http://www.peoplepoweredpeace.org/content/creating-abundance-occupying-your-plate