deepalisings

“The problem isn’t just the type of energy we’re using; it’s what we are doing with it. Even if we had a 100%-clean-energy system, what would we do with it? Exactly what we are doing with fossil fuels: raze more forests, trawl more fish, mine more mountains, build more roads, expand industrial farming, and send more waste to landfill – all of which have ecological consequences our planet can no longer sustain. We will do these things because our economic system demands that we grow production and consumption at an exponential rate.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.”
― Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche