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Amanda Ravenhill on R. Buckminster Fuller’s Lasting Relevance

At a Distance

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The Importance of Grieving

I wanted to bring up Buckminster's ideas around utopia and oblivion. He often wondered, are we heading toward utopia or oblivion? What's your answer to that right now? I think we still have an option for utopia and that pessimism is really just a luxury of a less urgent time. And it's important to grieve. There are kind of pockets of oblivion. We're not going to have probably 90% of the coral left. The natural coral that has existed on this world is worth grieving. So many people have given up already. If you don't have that internal will, how are we going to get that? We have so much that we

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