Louise

“Sometimes the period of terror is stamped into the language itself. In the Mongo tongue, “to send someone to harvest rubber” is an idiom meaning “to tyrannize.”
― Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

“The problem, it turns out, is not an overabundance of humans but a dearth of humanity.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

“Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.”
― E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops

“The emergent portrait of suffering is, I hope, horrifying. It is also, entirely, elective. If we allow global warming to proceed, and to punish us with all the ferocity we have fed it, it will be because we have chosen that punishment—collectively walking down a path of suicide. If we avert it, it will be because we have chosen to walk a different path, and endure.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming