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A Quiet Revolution
The second opportunity trend that can make an enormous contribution to an evolutionary bounce is a voluntary shift toward more sustainable and satisfying ways of living. This is a promising development for, in order to meet the coming evolutionary challenges successfully, I believe that we will need to make major changes in every aspect of our lives—including the transportation we use, the food that we eat, the homes and communities we live in, the work that we do, and the education that we provide. Although it is appealing to think that marginal measures such as intensified recycling and more fuel efficient cars will take care of things, they will not. We need to make sweeping changes—both externally and within ourselves. A sustainable future will demand far more than a surface change to a different style of life—it requires a deep change to a new way of life.