Occupation: Author Birth: June 27, 1937
That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to….
I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler….
Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denyi….
I want to leave my country without leaving my home..
When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans ….
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state..
So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human ….
The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic….
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival..
My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's….
It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is ….
Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - b….
That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony with the rest of….