Zamanın para demek olduğu bir çağda dinlemeye ve düşünmeye ayrılan vakit giderek azalıyor. Yüz yüze konuşmanın gerektirdiği duraklamalar, düşüncenin ufak molalarla derlenip toparlanma ihtiyacı, fazlasıyla sıkıcı ve yavaş bulunuyor. Böylece diyaloğun yerine veriler, yorumun yerini power point sunumları alıyor.
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Above all, we should treat the large and diverse set of countries in the Global South as partners to progress. Given their growing economies, Indian decisions between investing in new coal plants or more solar power, Brazilian decisions on how to develop their agriculture and exploit their tropical resources, African approaches to mining, protection of biodiversity, and low-carbon urbanization will all help determine whether the world meets the Sustainable Development Goals. Global South countries can be pioneers on sustainable development, whether through Argentinian techniques of ‘dry tilling’ to promote low-carbon farming, or innovations in the development of sustainable biofuels in Kenya, Tanzania and other African countries. India’s recent successes in lunar exploration open a vista to joint research with established space powers on the feasibility of mining for minerals on the moon, or further afield in our solar system. With the right technical support, African countries could undertake the genetic sequencing of new viruses locally, becoming key links in the early warning chain for global health.
While we dream of the world as a safer and more peaceful place, the favours of big and small dictators are curried by arms sellers, government-subsidized or not- merchandising their wares as not just weapons, but the poor man’s power and glory.”
Like Kenji Miyazawa’s poem says: ‘all the talent and power and resources people may possess will not remain with them forever.’ ”
His eyes took on a faraway look, then he added, “ ‘People, too, will someday cease to be themselves...’ That’s how it goes.”
That sounded awfully heavy to me.
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"Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue!
Let your bestowing love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth Thus I beg and beseech you.
Do not let it fly away from earthly things and beat against eternal walls with its wings! Oh, there has always been so much virtue that flew away!
Like me, guide the virtue that has flown away back to the earth – yes, back to the body and life: so that it may give the earth its meaning, a human meaning!"
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"It is power, this new virtue; it is a ruling thought and around it a wise soul: a golden sun and around it the snake of knowledge."
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They’d wielded unprecedented power, unimaginable and unmatchable power capable of rewriting the script of history. And they’d written themselves out
This was chaos, but chaos was where she thrived. A world at peace, at stalemate, at cease-fire, had no use for her. She understood now what she needed to do to cling to power: submerge the world in chaos, and forge her authority from the broken pieces.
“You drive them into total collapse. Fear turns into despair, despair to panic, and then panic into utter submission. It’s incredible, the power of psychological warfare. And all it takes is a couple of bombs.”
The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.
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