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“By not recognizing the ecological pattern, we have misconstrued our own history.14. Our misunderstanding enabled us to overshoot carrying capacity. If misunderstanding persists, it can turn the ecological kind of antagonism into the emotional kind, making an unkind fate crueler than necessary. As other mammalian species have moved into a post-exuberant stage, increased antagonism and competition typically have led to increased violence and behavioral degeneracy.”
― William R. Catton Jr., Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

“Money is our shelter, the only way we have to access life. But at the same time, if you want money you have to renounce life.”
― Franco Bifo Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide

“The faster the present generation draws down the fossil energy legacy upon which persistently exuberant lifestyles now depend, the less opportunity posterity will have to live in anything like the same way or the same numbers. Yet most contemporary political proposals for solving problems of economic stagnation or inequity amount to plans for speeding up the rate of drawdown of non-renewable resources.”
― William R. Catton Jr., 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.”
― William R. Catton Jr., Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change