“Electric cars won't do anything for climate emergency, unless all electricity comes from renewable energy.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“While climate change threatens our environment on the one hand, and fossil fuel depletion threatens our economic system on the other, solar energy holds out the promise of protecting both of them.”
Source: Forging Ahead: Technology Development & Emerging Economies
“Ignorance is bliss. But one day, people will realise the sheer scale of destruction humans do on Earth. We can all do our part to improve what we can.”
“The wind blows every day, every day the sun shines, every day the waves roll against the shore, and the earth is warm below us. We can understand these renewable sources of energy as given to us, since they are the sources that have powered life on the planet for as long as there has been a planet. We need not destroy the earth to make use of them.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“As a society, we cannot afford to overlook the nexus between environmental health and reproductive well-being. The future health and vitality of our communities depend on our collective commitment to creating a cleaner, safer environment for everyone, especially those who are most vulnerable.”
“The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured travel time in between. New timesaving technologies make most workers more productive, not more free, in a world which seems to be accelerating around them.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“The obscurity of location impedes the recognition of a genius; he lives in a poor city and afflicted with the paucity of the basic amenities taken for granted in advanced societies. Even his beautiful hit on the seventh hole does not catch the public eye because his locality is abysmally derided.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“What they get wrong is precisely this false belief that online prejudice is easily compartmentalized or categorized into, say, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or ableism when really it flows freely between these various bigotries.”
Source: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
“Le Liban, l'arrogante petite Suisse qui se prenait pour l'héritière d'une nation antique, voire biblique, seffondra une première fois en 1975, après trente ans que l'on a tendance aujourd'hui à magnifier. Ce furent pourtant trente ans de luttes, de conflits, de guerres larves pour définir l'identité du pays. Les chrétiens le considéraient comme leur et fondé pour eux, et refusaient den partager Le pouvoir réel avec les musulmans. Ces derniers exifaienr leur part de pouvoir, tout en rêvant d'unir Le pays aux grands projets arabistes et nassériens. Ils s'allièrent auxborgznisationnarmees palestiniennes. Les chrétiens y virent une menace existentielle, s'armèrent aussi et tout partit en morceaux.”
Source: Beyrouth 2020: Journal d'un effondrement
“When you're a socially ostracized white male you're not really recognised as marginalised,' he replies. 'It's easy to lash out at people who get all the glory and hype for being marginalised.”
Source: Troll Hunting: Inside the World of Online Hate and its Human Fallout