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“Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trusts have no need to make concessions, when [solar radiation management] is close at hand and the environmental movement is weakened by infighting. The powerful will only concede what is taken from them, and only a broad and radical movement can force such concessions.”
― Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

“Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear.”
― Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

“Free software is an example of a Luddite technology: an innovation in the interest of the preservation of practitioners' autonomy against the imposition of control over the labor process by capitalists.”
― Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

“Two days after the German occupation, my mother called the pediatrician. "Would you come to see Gabi?" she requested. "He has been crying almost without stop since yesterday morning."
"I'll come, of course," the doctor replied, "but I should tell you: all of my Jewish babies are crying.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder