Depletion Quotes

“Little things
over time
make big differences,
as true for depletion as it is
for progress.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Friends with toxic thoughts are like assets that cause depletion to the value of life.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts

“I routinely observed health symptoms in high altitude staff that matched oxygen enrichment and oxygen depletion while working in professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“This is the problem with the gig economy, I think as I squirm around in the trunk. Everyone is so vulnerable and the rules for what constitutes civilized behavior--well, they're coming apart so quickly I've decided those rules were illusions all along. We have stopped seeing each other as people, as fellow travelers on this dying earth; we just see a gig or an economy.... The system is designed to keep us so depleted that we forget our sense of decency and become so mercenary about our own survival that we have nothing left to contribute to the common good.”
― Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

“Since the early seventeenth century we’ve been fervently digging up this buried ancient carbon that cook tens of millions of years for the Earth to slowly stockpile, and we burned a great deal of it in just a few centuries. While there are concerns over peak oil and the diminishing supply of crude, there is plenty of accessible coal still underground – certainly another few centuries’ worth at current consumption rates. In this sense, then, we’re not currently facing another energy crisis but a climate crisis, born as a result of our past solution to our energy hunger”
― Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

“Since the early seventeenth century we’ve been fervently digging up this buried ancient carbon that cook tens of millions of years for the Earth to slowly stockpile, and we burned a great deal of it in just a few centuries. While there are concerns over peak oil and the diminishing supply of crude, there is plenty of accessible coal still underground – certainly another few centuries’ worth at current consumption rates. In this sense, then, we’re not currently facing another energy crisis but a climate crisis, born as a result of our past solution to our energy hunger.”
― Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

“The carbon dioxide released by the combustion of fossil fuels has been rapidly increasing its level in the atmosphere, which is now 45 per cent higher that prior to the Industrial Revolution.”
― Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History