Imagine

Here's that quote from Al Gore that we are supposed to take as the definitive statement that he is not running in 2008...

"I can't imagine in any circumstance to run for office again," said the former Democratic vice president under then-president Bill Clinton.

I submit that he does not have to be able to "imagine" it--he just needs to be willing to do the right thing when the circumstance presents itself.

From an article in Yes Magazine:

By what name will future generations know our time?
Will they speak in anger and frustration of the time of the Great Unraveling, when profligate consumption exceeded Earth’s capacity to sustain and led to an accelerating wave of collapsing environmental systems, violent competition for what remained of the planet’s resources, and a dramatic dieback of the human population? Or will they look back in joyful celebration on the time of the Great Turning, when their forebears embraced the higher-order potential of their human nature, turned crisis into opportunity, and learned to live in creative partnership with one another and Earth?

I recommend reading the rest, if you haven't before. It won't help us to panic. After all, giving in to fear is what has gotten us into the trouble we're currently in as a country.

We just need to learn to *imagine*...together.

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