{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"2022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow&#039;s Research Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022","author_name":"Marina","author_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/author\/admin\/","title":"Very funny. kind of.","html":"<blockquote>\"What is the world\u2019s shortest book?\r\n\r\nThe environmentalist\u2019s book of jokes.\"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u2013 from writer Sharman Apt Russell's blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/loveofplace.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Love of Place<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She continues in her post \"The Lighter Side of Global Warming:\"<\/p>\r\n\"For myself, I also feel an intangible loss. Humans are wired for continuity. We believe in culture, tradition, grandkids. We believe we are connected to the future. In the twentieth century, where I spent most of my time, we even believed in progress. We were destined to move forward into something better. Now I feel cut off. Disconnected. The future is no place I want to go.\r\n\r\nAs Woody Allen wrote, 'Mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to extinction. Let us pray we choose correctly.'\"<\/blockquote>","type":"rich"}