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“Doctrines may be a frightful burden, Sumner said, for, with the prestige of antiquity and tradition, they deprive the living generation of an open-minded capacity to face facts.”
― Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
― Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
“As numerous and as technologically advanced as mankind on the average had already become after four centuries of exuberance, we had besieged ourselves. Each of us was now doing damage, just by living, to the life support systems of our finite planet.”
― Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
― Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
“The “Ostriches” in this analysis represent the truest adherents of the old cornucopian paradigm. The “Realists” are the truest adherents of the new ecological paradigm. The world looks very different to people who think in terms of such different perspectives. Communication between them can be as difficult as between people who share no common language. Paradigm differences were thus bound to make painful the process of adjusting to post-exuberant realities.”
― Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
― Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
“Fate, he explained, is shaping history when what happens to us was intended by no one and was the summary outcome of innumerable small decisions about other matters by innumerable people.”
― Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
― Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
“…any area of land will support in perpetuity only a limited number of people. An absolute limit is imposed by soil and climatic factors in so far as these are beyond human control, and a practical limit is set by the way in which the land is used. If this practical limit of population is exceeded, without a compensating change in the system of land usage, then a cycle of degenerative changes is set in motion which must result in deterioration or destruction of the land and ultimately in hunger and reduction of the population.”
― Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
― Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
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