Status Updates From MEMO FOR A SANER WORLD

“Herein lies a crucial dilemma for politics and global society in this age of weapons of mass destruction. The law of the ladder of political and business ascendancy is that those least worried about treading on other climbers will most readily get to the top. Yet what the world needs atop that ladder is humaneness and far-sightedness and understanding.”

“I don’t go along with the theory that, as there are already huge numbers of people going to Antarctica (or any other fragile area), one more won’t hurt. A little restraint from each of us, in our own way, can be an enduring gift to the Earth.”