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The World Was Made For Love

There is only one sin greater than the sin of war,
and that is the sin of destroying Creation itself.

Today, we are guilty of both.

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Young people today know that every year, the planet sets another heat record. They know that nuclear weapons are on high alert. They know that their future is threatened by catastrophic tipping points.

Publishers feed them fantasy, so that young people can escape into a safe world which they control. Schools avoid controversial subjects; certain words are not mentioned. But the young people know that the Earth is dying, and thus they live with anger which becomes outrage, fear which becomes deep anxiety, and sadness which becomes black depression.

And yet, despite all the political and economic obstacles, wind turbines and solar panels are spreading around the world, bringing jobs, bringing lifelong careers, bringing clean energy to giant cities and tiny villages, bringing clean air and clean water . . . and bringing hope. The clean energy industries are growing so steadily that we are now in the early years of a Green Energy Renaissance. For young people around the planet, and for the planet herself, this is enormously good news.

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Book categories: Climate Change and Clean Energy