Retreat
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Neo-colonialism is returning to Africa, the global project of human rights is in
retreat
, and the world trade system is becoming far less open.
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A few years ago, I did a meditation
retreat
in Thailand.
So what you'd be wondering, watching the Human Show, is are we going to confront and address the catastrophic climate shift that may be heading our way by growing our consciousness, or are we going to continue to
retreat?
We tend to
retreat
and say, "We can draw a picture, we can post some graphs, we get it, we understand how this works."
The challenges that we face cannot go away if we recoil and
retreat
into our shells, wishing and imagining that those problems will somehow magically disappear.
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