What Matters Most?

What matters most to you? What matters most to humanity? What matters most to the planet?

Inspired by some artist friends of his, New York Times eco-blogger Andy Revkin asked a fascinating group of people that simple yet hugely complicated question: What matters most?

And he got some fascinating answers. From UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon. From fifteen-year-old climate change activist Alec Loorz. From author and environmental movement veteran Bill McKibben. From charming contrarian Bjorn Lomborg. And from an impressive handful of others.

Here's a taste:

Perhaps what matters most is how we choose to define community and our capacity to then live our lives with a heightened sense of empathy and responsibility toward others, a community that exists beyond our own kind, our own country, our own species.

For more, click through to Andy's post.