“Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who lost this game; now it is the planet.” RealEnoughRunningPastGamesLostPoorEconomyPlanetsCapitalismInfiniteNow And ThenIrrelevantLureInsistingHaresGreyhounds Book:A Short History Of Progress Source: A Short History Of Progress
“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
