"There is simply nothing in our cultural history that
adequately prepares us for the evolutionary challenges we now face, challenges
that will demand more robust and sophisticated answers to the question of how
human beings are actually related to the natural world out of which we have emerged."
"Given these unprecedented realities, I think we can
say that the bar has been raised when it comes to cooperation. We are facing a
moral, spiritual, and interpersonal challenge that test and transcend
everything evolution has ever learned about how to make a community - large or
small; bacterial, mammalian, or human - work. Our success, and even our
survival may depend on how we are able to walk the delicate line between
cooperation and self-interest as the cycle of evolution takes a new turn, embracing
the extraordinary interconnected diversity of our global community." from
Carter Phipps's book "Evolutionaries"
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