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have hopes that a network of citizens can do something about many of | have hopes that a network of citizens can do something about many of | ||
these issues, but it will take time. | these issues, but it will take time. | ||
[Added later: Use microfinance to put in the electricity and Internet as local businesses, and repay the costs by charging other local businesses a reasonable rate for using them.] | |||
What we are looking for here is some tens of trillions of dollars | What we are looking for here is some tens of trillions of dollars | ||
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is all of Us and all of Them, for any given values of Us and Them) get | is all of Us and all of Them, for any given values of Us and Them) get | ||
this right, it will improve education, politics, economics, and the | this right, it will improve education, politics, economics, and the | ||
arts of | arts of sustainability in a manner that we cannot well foresee. | ||
But it won't make anybody happy. Comfortable, certainly, for the great | But it won't make anybody happy. Comfortable, certainly, for the great | ||
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with what you have. Not resignation to having only that, but | with what you have. Not resignation to having only that, but | ||
willingness to work with it gladly to improve things further for the | willingness to work with it gladly to improve things further for the | ||
benefit of everybody else. Meaning that we get to tackle the | benefit of everybody else. Meaning that we get to tackle the '''hard''' | ||
problems next. | problems next. | ||