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Imagining Future Amends to Other Species

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Imagining Future Amends to Other Species

Post author:thee.smith
Post published:April 15, 2016
Post category:INTERSPECIES / FUTURIST

“Scientists estimate that 150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every 24 hours. This is nearly 1,000 times the ‘natural’ or ‘background’ rate and, say many biologists, is greater than anything the world has experienced since the vanishing of the dinosaurs nearly 65m years ago.”
— UN Environment Programme: 200 Species Extinct Every Day . . . August 17, 2010 10:21 Updated May 25, 2011
https://www.huffpost.com › entry › un-environment-programme-_n_684562

Futuring Our Interspecies Amends

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Theophus 'Thee' Smith is an emeritus interfaith scholar at Emory University, Episcopal clergy at St. Philip’s Cathedral in Atlanta, Georgia (GA) USA, and board chair at SouthernTruth.net

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Theophus 'Thee' Smith August 31, 2019

We can imagine a future of amends to other species.

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Imagining Amends . . .

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Imagining Personal Amends to Self

Imagining Our Historical Amends

Imagining Our Way to Amended Futures

Imagining Interpersonal Amends to Others

Imagining Our Ancestral Amends

Imagining Future Amends to Our Planet

Imagining Our Institutional Amends

Imagining Future Amends to Other Species

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Remembering a 21st Century African American ‘Passion-Bearer’

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Even Joyous Solidarity! What I Learned about Hate and Fear after 40 Years of Diversity Training

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