We all feel the chill our present casts on our future. Some part of us knows that we must awaken to action or doom our children to dangers and hardsh… - Ann Druyan

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We all feel the chill our present casts on our future. Some part of us knows that we must awaken to action or doom our children to dangers and hardships we ourselves have never had to face. How do we rouse ourselves and keep from sleepwalking into a climate or a nuclear catastrophe that may not be reversed before it has destroyed our civilization and countless other species? How do we learn to value those things we cannot live without-air, water, the sustaining fabric of life on Earth, the future-more than we prize money and short-term convenience? Nothing less than a global spiritual awakening can transform us into who we must become.

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About Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) is an American author and producer specializing in productions about cosmology and popular science. She was a co-writer of the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan whom she married in 1981. She is the creator/producer/writer of the follow-up Cosmos seasons: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and Cosmos: Possible Worlds. She was in charge of music selections that were included with the pioneer spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

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When Carl wrote Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, he imagined an Encyclopedia Galactica-a reference work that includes all the worlds of all the stars. He was bravely writing at a time before a single exoplanet had been discovered and long before the internet. In the decades since, we have located thousands of planets orbiting other stars. His dream of the Encyclopedia Galactica is a little closer to reality now.

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