“Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.” LastsTermEffortTroubleCenturyProductsCrisisMisfortunesEmployedConnotation Book:The affluent society Source: The affluent society
“Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.” WorldNeedsLastsGrowthEconomyTroubleLandCenturyCivilizationEnvironmentalIncludingProductionsDecadesAtmosphereTrendsBubblesConsumptionCarbon21st CenturyCarbon DioxideFood ProductionAquifers Author:Lester R. Brown
“How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.” TryingEndsHomeTroubleCenturyTravelManageIslandsDecentPlatesColumbusCaribbeanSpaghetti Author:Calvin Trillin
“The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.” HumansLooksEndsEyeSpiritGoalGrowthCommunityAbilityRaceEmotionTroubleFeetCenturyIdentityDrawsOrganizationDifficultyManageMaturityHuman RaceDesperateAdolescence20th CenturyRapidsUncontrollableFalteringRapid GrowthSearch For Identity Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.” HumansHas BeensPastLawSocialSexMoralTroubleCenturyBehaviorStandardsFundamentalsUrgesAcceptableSex Drive Author:Terry Gross
“I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWritingPastLostAudienceComedyTroubleCenturyCoupleBehaviorDirectOvercomingObstaclesInnocenceSuspenseGenreParadiseTrashTwentieth CenturyCinematicStellarTrash Talk Author:Leslye Headland
“I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about the other half of the forcing, it's obvious that the trouble is coming much sooner.” IfsKnowsWould BeHalfTroubleCenturyLateClimateObviousOther HalfCo2Heating Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.” ProblemFoundReligiousFailingTroubleCenturyAdore Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.” HelpingStoriesIndividualTroubleCenturyCardsLandscapeTriumphHeroicHumankindArena19th CenturyAsteroidsProspecting Author:Seth Shostak