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Jonathan Safran Foer

“Yes, there are constraints on our actions, conventions and structural injustices that set the parameters of possibility. Our free will is not omnipotent – we can't do whatever we want. But, as Scranton says, we are free to choose from possible options. And one of our options is to make environmentally conscientious choices. It doesn't require breaking the laws of physics–or even electing a green president–to select something plant-based from a menu or at the grocery store. And although it may be a neoliberal myth that individual decisions have ultimate power, it is a defeatist myth that individual decisions have no power at all. Both macro and micro actions have power, and when it comes to mitigating our planetary destruction, it is unethical to dismiss either, or to proclaim that because the large cannot be achieved, the small should not be attempted.”

Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
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We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
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