Chapter 1THE DOUBLE MEANING OF SUSTAINABILITY
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: Why am I doing this? What might the results be? Will I be successful? Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions should you proceed.
—CHANAKYA, INDIAN TEACHER, PHILOSOPHER, AND ECONOMIST (370–283 BCE)
GREG—Waking at six o’clock in the morning on the last day of our trip into the Amazon River basin and the Peruvian rainforest was both exciting and sad. My wife and I jumped out of bed and ran to the board ramps for the skiffs to begin our last expedition of the trip. We didn’t want it to end, but we knew we needed to drink in the world around us one last time. We had spent eight days aboard a small riverboat ...
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