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Questions for a Resilient Future

Join fellow thinkers and our invited contributors on questions critical to the future of humanity and life on earth. Come to your own conclusions, and add your voice to the conversation.

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We ask questions that explore our moral obligations to each other and the whole community of life. Our Contributors and our Readers (you) respond to the questions. Anyone can comment on the responses.

How do we understand the Cosmos as our home?

How do we understand the Cosmos as our home?

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How can we live respectfully with the land and with one another?

How can we live respectfully with the land and with one another?

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Plus 1 Public Comments
8 Expert Witnesses · 1 Public Comments
How do we create communities to which all of us can belong?

How do we create communities to which all of us can belong?

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5 Contributor Responses · 5 Reader Responses
What does it mean to be a farmer in the twenty-first century?

What does it mean to be a farmer in the twenty-first century?

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Plus 3 Reader Responses
9 Contributor Responses · 3 Reader Responses
Man doing yoga underneath a tree.

What happens when we see ourselves as separate from or as a part of nature?

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Plus 71 Reader Responses
11 Contributor Responses · 71 Reader Responses
Dancers at the Denver March Powwow

What kind of ancestor do you want to be?

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Plus 11 Reader Responses
14 Contributor Responses · 11 Reader Responses
Tanker trucks leaving fracking well

Does fracking violate human rights?

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Plus 4 Reader Responses
15 Contributor Responses · 4 Reader Responses
The Diversity of life since Earth's beginning

What can evolution tell us about morality?

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Plus 17 Reader Responses
14 Contributor Responses · 17 Reader Responses
People carrying water back to town

What are our moral and civic responsibilities to water?

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Plus 13 Reader Responses
10 Contributor Responses · 13 Reader Responses
Sea turtle at the South Carolina Aquarium

How can zoos and aquariums foster cultures of care and conservation?

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Plus 29 Reader Responses
23 Contributor Responses · 29 Reader Responses
Looking into the mirror

What are the connections between culture and conscience?

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15 Contributor Responses · 8 Reader Responses
Statue of Lady Justice

Can democracy in crisis deal with the climate crisis?

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13 Contributor Responses · 15 Reader Responses
Chicago's skyline at dusk

How is nature critical to a twenty-first century urban ethic?

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Plus 3 Reader Responses
19 Contributor Responses · 3 Reader Responses
Old stone wall atop a hill

What does Earth ask of us?

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14 Contributor Responses · 28 Reader Responses
Looking out across the lake

What does it mean to be human?

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14 Contributor Responses · 39 Reader Responses
Tasmanian Tiger, extinct 1936

How far should we go to bring back lost species?

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19 Contributor Responses · 6 Reader Responses
Mind and Body

Mind and morality: where do they meet?

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16 Contributor Responses · 10 Reader Responses
Cave paintings depicting ancient hunters

Does hunting make us human?

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Plus 17 Reader Responses
22 Contributor Responses · 17 Reader Responses
Aerial view of Manhattan

How can we create a successful economy without continuous economic growth?

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Plus 40 Reader Responses
16 Contributor Responses · 40 Reader Responses
A winding road down a mountain.

To build or not to build a road… how do we honor the landscape?

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Plus 1 Reader Response
13 Contributor Responses · 1 Reader Response
Mosquito silhouette against a setting backdrop

“Gene drive” technology will let us edit life in new ways, but should we use it?

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4 Contributor Responses · 8 Reader Responses
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