“Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.” IfsLongHas BeensProblemMightAbleNightDarkSpaceTechnologyPlanetsEnvironmentalSizeOilScalesDirtyPollutionTolerateBurnedConsumptionCoalMight Have BeenOld FriendsEmbersBiosphere Book:A Short History Of Progress Source: A Short History Of Progress
