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“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

“At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Sustainability, or fairness to the future, therefore involves the concept of stewardship, the idea that the living generation must be stewards of the earth’s resources for the generations that will come later. That’s a tough role to play. There is nothing natural or innate about it. We need to defend the interests of those whom we’ve never met and never will. Yet those are our descendants and our fellow humanity. Alas, it’s a role that we’ve mostly ignored till now, to the increasing peril of all who will follow. The”
― Jeffrey D. Sachs, The Price Of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue And Prosperity