Anthropogenic Change Quotes

“Our distant ancestors had the capacity to make profound changes to the environment, to shape it such that it would better deliver those things upon which their subsistence depended. They could overexploit an exhaust, and persecute perceived competitors to extinction, but they could also recognise depletion and take steps to regulate overuse and bad practice. Above all, however, they developed a fundamental social resilience in the face of adversity and crisis, and it is from that characteristic that we have most to learn in these uncertain times.”
― Richard Oram, A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400 - 1400