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Our Greatest Risk |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE PRAIRIE? |
| Author: Earl L. Butz |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,837 Words, 10,299 Characters |
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Americans live in a risk-filled world.
We have always been daring adventurers and big risk takers. From the western-bound prairie schooner of two centuries ago to the heaven-bound rocket challenger of our day, Americans have risked their lives and their fortunes to conquer new frontiers.
In these adventures, some Americans did lose their lives, some their fortunes, and some lost both. Yet all were driven to risk, spurred on by the dream of something better than what they already had.
The payoff has been great. We enjoy the highest and most widely distributed level of affluence in the world. True, there is poverty among us, but poverty is relative. Ours is a nation where even people on welfare live well--private housing, hot and cold running water, private baths, central heat, telephones, radios, TVs, automobiles, education, and food from broad supplemental feeding programs are a few of the basic amenities enjoyed by even the poorest in America.
These advances, however, have not been without ...
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...ese problems as the concern of others and face the fact that they are ours, this nation can move forward with greater effectiveness toward the achievement of a better quality of life for all.
It is completely unacceptable to believe that there is no way out of the problems we have created. Unquestionably there are risks involved--but none so great as the risk that we may quit risking. vbcrlf
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