| Globalize yourself
- Popular expression
Love just one nation and the whole world you divide.
- Spearhead
So if there is a global village, it is not a very equitable
one, and if there is a tragedy of our times, it may be that
we are all interconnected but we fail to see it and take care
of our relationships with others. For me, the ultimate promise
of digital technology is that it might enable us to truly see
one another once again and all the ways we are interconnected.
It might help us create a truly global view that can spark the
kind of empathy we need to create a better world for all of
humankind.
- Michael Wesch, A
Brief Interview - John Battelle
To learn about the world through first-hand, one-on-one meetings
with people from around the world is a valuable human experience.
If travelers' experiences were consistently negative, they would
not pursue their journeys enthusiastically and share their experiences
with others. We discover universal themes of human culture.
We become more aware that no matter where we live we are all
confronting similar situations as we ultimately become a global
community.
- Deborah McLaren, Rethinking
Tourism and Ecotravel: The Paving of Paradise and How You Can
Stop It
The skin around every city looks the same
miles of flat neon spelling well-known names
- Bruce Cockburn, Silver Wheels
The whole world is watching now.
- Peter Gabriel
Lack of globalism is no defense.
- Conversation
Think globally, act locally, respond personally.
- Popular expression
Although we have told one another on bumper stickers and at
environmental conferences that we must 'think globally and act
locally,' we tend to drift toward mega-solutions. Rather than
get busy, we introduce new terms such as 'sustainable' to apply
to any perceived solution that catches our fancy. Instead of
looking to community, we look to public policy. We hold a global
conference in Rio.
- Wes Jackson, Becoming
Native to This Place
We have to look at things the way they are, painful and overwhelmingly
as that may be, for no healing can begin until we are fully
present to our world, until we learn to sustain the gaze.
- Joanna Macy, World
as Lover, World as Self
Physicists calculate that in about 100 years time we will have
a planetary civilization. And that's what all the chaos is all
about. We are witnessing one of the great transitions in human
history from a fragmented savage Type-0 to a planetary and rather
civilized Type-1. It's quite dangerous the transition. Every
single headline I see in the newspapers is related to the birth
pangs of the birth of a Type-1 civilization.
- Michio Kaku, BBC Interview
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