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Eve Ensler has been writing a column in O Magazine where she asks the “best brains across the globe” what they would do to save the world. This month, Wilma Mankiller contributed her ideas:

“When people cease waiting for great leaders or prophets to solve entrenched problems and look, instead, within themselves — trusting their own thinking, believing in their own power — and to their families and communities for solutions, change will follow.

In traditional indigenous communities, there is an understanding that our lives play themselves out within a set of reciprocal relationships. If each human being in the world could fully understand that we all are interdependent and responsible for one another, it would save the world”