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“All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.”

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Chief Seattle, born in 1780 and died on June 7, 1866, was a historical figure of an unknown profession. Limited information is available about his life, achievements, and impact. more

“We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.”

“The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.”

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Author:Lester R. Brown

“Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.”

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Author:Alfred W. Crosby

“The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.”

Feels Fields Strange Grew Climate Change Bones Bread Spots Thee

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.”

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Book:Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

Source: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

“Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.”

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Author:Alfred W. Crosby

“Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of coastal cities will be abandoned. The rice growing river deltas of Asia will be under water. There will be hundreds of millions of rising-sea refuges. The word that comes to mind is chaos. If we cannot mobilize to save the Greenland ice sheet; we probably cannot save civilization as we know it.”

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Author:Lester R. Brown

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