Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes.
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow. - Ronald Wright
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow.
- Ronald Wright
Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. J… - Ronald Wright
Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. J…
Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a… - Ronald Wright
Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a…
Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. - Ronald Wright
Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine. - Ronald Wright
the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.
Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oi… - Ronald Wright
Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oi…
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do. - Ronald Wright
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. - Ronald Wright
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.
Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, o… - Ronald Wright
Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, o…
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