From one piece It’s Life and Death — Intellectuals Can’t Keep Serving the Status Quo (interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Organized human society is threatened with extinction by environmental destruction, mostly by the richTheir words
It is now organized human society worldwide that is “threatened with extinction” under the blows of environmental destruction, overwhelmingly by the rich, concentrated in the rich countries.
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We are living in an era of confluence of crises that has no counterpart in human history.
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The task of a responsible person — anyone who wants to uphold intellectual and moral values — is not to speak what they regard as truth to anybody — the powerful or the powerless — but rather to speak with the powerless and to try to learn the truth.
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It is sometimes held that their responsibility is “to speak truth to power.” I’ve always found that troubling. The powerful typically know the truth quite well.