Capitalocene Quotes

“The fact that the countries with the highest birth rates generally have the lowest standard of living and produce the least pollution fatally undermines such claims - if the poorest 3 billion people on the planet somehow disappeared tomorrow, there would be virtually no reduction in ongoing environmental destruction.”
― Ian Angus, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System

“Let me call it cosmic solidarity: solar politics, which breaks the promethean vicious circle of worship and extractivism, begins from the recognition that the sun is neither a master, nor a slave. The sun is a comrade.”
― Oxana Timofeeva, Solar Politics