I feel down an internet rabbit hole a couple of days ago. I know the kind, you start with a tweet from some one who is followed by someone you follow, that leads you to a blog post, which points you to another blog post. In other words I have no idea how I got to where I ended up, but it was well worth the journey.
Ultimately I ended up reading the transcript of a "remarkable commencement address by author, entrepreneur and environmentalist Paul Hawken." It's well worth the read. Here's taste:
You join a multitude of caring people. No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. This is the largest movement the world has ever seen. Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power. Like Mercy Corps, it works behind the scenes and gets the job done. Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this movement. It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the world. Its clout resides in idea, not in force. It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who loves us all in such a huge way.
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