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Developing wisdom at species level. The evolution of a new humanity, which thinks as a species. The shift from male thought to female thought and leadership. How women can save the world. Changing our identity to reflect the new, risky reality. Setting ‘safe boundaries’ for human existence. Ten ways to measure if humans can survive.
To know yourself is the beginning of all wisdom—Aristotle.
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened—Lao Tzu.
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I am indebted to former US Army general Norman Schwarzkopf for this colourful, if palaeontologically inexact, expression which he first applied in a TV interview to the consequences for the US of invading Iraq and capturing Baghdad. It was too apt not to re-use.
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see, for example, Modern Slavery, https://modernslavery.co.uk/index.html.
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For full details, see http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/69/L.85&Lang=E.
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Cribb, J. (2017). The Getter of Wisdom (Homo sapientior). In: Surviving the 21st Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41270-2_10
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