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“Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.”

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Jean Baudrillard was a French philosopher known for his critical studies on consumerism, media, and semiotics. His theories have had a profound impact on postmodernism and cultural studies. more

“Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.”

Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

“All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced.”

Believe Problem Technology Consequence Bases Environmental Currents Environmental Problems

Author:Jared Diamond

“Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.”

Humans Earth Moving Exploitation Progression

Book:Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos

Source: Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos

“Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff - what I sometimes call the take-make-waste model - the economy as it is will kill the planet.”

Ifs Way Sometimes Stuff Economy Planets Waste Models Productions Extraction

Author:Annie Leonard

“The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).”

“Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has cost us much, ensnared us in our own designs, given us a few boasts to make about our courage and genius, but all the same it is an illusion.”

Humans Dream Given Design Genius Cost Illusion Species Passing Passings Domination Naive Boast

Book:Under western skies: nature and history in the American West

Source: Under western skies: nature and history in the American West

“The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.”

Humans Book Use Laughing Impossible Cry Thrilling Believable Tin Puzzling Haig

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”

People Said Facts Action Sound Moral Hell Poet Crisis Panic Alarms Reserved Complacent Neutrality Hottest Moral Crisis

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.”

Want Wells Has Beens Growth Economy Cutting Economic Taxes Gains Raises Democrat Arguing Helpful Slow Down Economic Growth Capital Gains Capital Gains Tax

Author:Grover Norquist

“It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.”

Effects Terrorism Frustrating Success And Failure

Author:Bruce Schneier

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