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“I don't know how to be happy - They didn't teach it in my school”

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Ashleigh Brilliant is a British author known for his unique humor and satirical style. Born on December 9, 1933, his work has been influential in the literary and popular culture scenes since the 1960s. 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

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