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Ideas that could save humanity

By A. C. Grayling

10 December 2008

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This digital composite shows Earth on fire: is such an end inevitable?

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GOOD ideas and striking insights are not so common that they can be allowed to float away on the slipstream of time without making a difference. That difference might be to change the way we think about ourselves and the world. Sometimes it might even affect the way we act – which is obviously more important, and less forgivable to forget. By way of example let me offer two ideas, one of each type.

First there is the case put forward…

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