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“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
“America's history has thus exemplified the dependence of political liberty upon ecological foundations.”
― Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
― 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.”
― Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide
― 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.”
― 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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