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What does it mean?
Humanity faces a critical choice between two bleak futures, requiring wisdom to survive.
In plain terms
We must choose wisely because both options lead to destruction.
What can you take from it?
Wisdom is essential for survival.

Where it applies

  • political discourse
  • speeches
  • crisis

Putting it to work

  • leadership
  • policy making
  • activism

Questions to consider

  • What choices define our future?
  • Is doom inevitable?

Another view

It assumes only two dire options exist.

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