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| | Duane Elgin: The Breaking Point |
 | | I picked up his new book, Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future, and began reading the first few chapters only to run headlong into a very cogent, very clear, and very devastating description of the state of our embattled world. |
 | | Indeed, as he laid out the daunting ecological and social challenges we face as an evolving species at this point in history, all kinds of dire scenarios of the future began to unfold in this reader's head, scenarios that were a lot closer to Blade Runner and Waterworld than Star Trek or The Jetsons. |
 | | What I did not know at the time, but would soon learn, is that Elgin, despite initial evidence to the contrary, is a profound optimist. |
| www.wie.org /j19/elgin.asp?ifr=dt&ifd=25 (487 words) |
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