Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.
Frances Moore LappéThe real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.
Frances Moore LappéIf we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.
Frances Moore LappéWhat is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical model of agriculture. We know so much more about the life of soil now and we understand how plants synergistically work together with microbes and animals to create healthy conditions.
Frances Moore Lappé