I also value his philosophy on desire and a commitment to excellence.

Thanks for sharing your insights from his boook.

Chip
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While many conscious, caring, concerned people have only a few children, the vast majority of others around the world have many more – which will mean that each new generation will have a proportionally greater imbalance of many kinds between those who live on planet – which may be a reason that people “in power” like Ted Turner and the United Nations (he supports) actively advocate, endorse, and attempt to enforce (immediate) “population reduction”.

Although each of Ted’s 11 general promises CAN be interpreted positively, the actual details of each matters more than they may “initially” appear (which in this case, they don’t appear at all). Interpreted details must be evaluated on their own merit as well as by how well the walk matches the talk. Many seemingly positive proposals and policies are often economically motivated rather than really “environmentally” beneficial or “sustainable”. For example, Al Gore promotes compact florescent light bulbs instead of far superior LEDs and emphasizes (taxable) carbon dioxide with NO mention of methane as a far more impactful greenhouse gas (or how factory farming cows contribute to it).

Ted Turner, Bil Gates, and many others with the “resources” they so much want to preserve may be doing a lot to make the world a better place – but I suspect that MANY of the details of their actual plans would NOT liked if known.

Since what EACH of us does may matter and make differences that we are not even be aware of, before (optimistically) interpreting, (unconditionally) endorsing, (actively) adopting, advocating) imitating, or even assuming the best about Ted’s “initiatives”, I’d like a little more education, exploration, and introspection before “initiating” action.

I too, like Kathy and Edward, never knew much about Ted Turner, so thank you so much for enlightening me on how much of a brilliant man he was/is!!

I’m reading Gary V’s book “Crush It” right now, and much of Ted’s philosophies about his competition remind me of Gary’s.

I also LOVE your major takeaway from the book, as that is HUGE…the more ways we can find to leverage our time and start doing the things that really matter to us with the time that we have in this life, the better off we’ll be!!

Thanks again for the great post!! Keep up the great work Darlene!!

- Jomo

Thanks for the info, Darlene….another book to add to my “to read” list!
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I definitely am going to need to pick up this book soon, have you thought about including an Amazon link in your posts so that people can buy directly from you, earning you a little commission?

And I’m 100% with you on making the planet a better place than it was before I arrived, we’ve got to help future generations out!

Keep it up,
Chris