Giselle

“O cético acha que se o final é feliz, talvez ainda não seja o final. O que tem fé sabe que não existe final - tudo sao começos.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, A Rainha Ginga e de Como os Africanos Inventaram o Mundo

“Some angles of evidence now suggest this is the most wealth-inequal moment in human history, surpassing the feudal era for instance, and the early warrior/priest/peasant states. Also, the two billion poorest people on the planet still lack access to basics like toilets, housing, food, health care, education, and so on. This means that fully one-quarter of humanity, enough to equal the entire human population of the year 1960, is immiserated in ways that the poorest people of the feudal era or the Upper Paleolithic were not.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

“So, is there energy enough for all? Yes. Is there food enough for all? Yes. Is there housing enough for all? There could be, there is no real problem there. Same for clothing. Is there health care enough for all? Not yet, but there could be; it’s a matter of training people and making small technological objects, there is no planetary constraint on that one. Same with education. So all the necessities for a good life are abundant enough that everyone alive could have them. Food, water, shelter, clothing, health care, education”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

“What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future