“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.” WorldLongPastGivenBornTechnologyRevolutionFunctionCrisisBraveStrikesCeaseLabourCyclesContractsNew WorldContrastKillersLong AgoAgricultureLaboratoryGermsIndustrial RevolutionBrave New WorldAntibiotics Book:The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy Source: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy
“The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.” IfsMayHas BeensNextTermWealthTechnologyGenerationsModernEvidenceCrisisEnvironmentalDebtProductivityFraudExploitationRapidsNext GenerationShort TermWipeInsidiousSomberModern TechnologyEnvironmental Crisis Author:Barry Commoner
“Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.” WantHumansKindMayTwoRealNextGrowthTechnologyCenturyPossibilityCapableIntellectualCommitmentWake UpCrisisEnvironmentalPopulationCommunicateGapsFearfulWant UEmergingExpertiseCopingIngenuityScience And TechnologyMisplacedPopulation GrowthReadershipWake Up CallBlithe Author:Michael Ignatieff
“About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.” YearsTwoMomentsTechnologyDevelopmentCrisisExistentialMarketplaceNew TechnologyVigilantExistential CrisisMoment Of Truth Author:Jeremy Stoppelman
“Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and technology. Many recent discoveries have brought undeniable benefits to humanity. Indeed, they demonstrate the nobility of the human vocation to participate responsibly in God's creative action in the world. Unfortunately, it is now clear that the application of these discoveries in the fields of industry and agriculture have produced harmful long-term effects.” WorldFirstsHumansLongCharacterTodayActionCertainHumanityTermMoralTechnologyCreativeClearEffectsFieldsIndustryElementsBenefitsDiscoveryCrisisEnvironmentalLong TermApplicationSustainabilityAgricultureVocationNobilityEcologicalScience And TechnologyMoral CharacterAdvances In ScienceEcological Crisis Author:Pope John Paul II
“People mistake their love of the technology for it being a solution. Social media is the problem, not the solution, in crisis management. It's a problem if you use it to communicate in areas where you're dealing with incredibly intense emotions and very deep conflicts.” PeopleIfsUseProblemSocialEmotionMistakeTechnologyMediaConflictSolutionsAreasManagementCrisisCommunicateSocial MediaIntenseVery DeepCrisis ManagementIntense Emotions Author:Eric Dezenhall
“There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHumansStillsMatterStoriesFilmBlackVoiceHuman BeingsTechnologyIssuesComedyColorTypeRight NowCrisisAddressesBlack Lives MatterEnablingBlack Lives Author:Charles Burnett
“More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.” TechnologyCrisisEcologicalEcological Crisis Author:Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
“I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.” BelieveSituationTechnologyBearsCrisisAlternativesOptimist Author:Vinton Cerf
“Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is result of capitalism, a system based on prioritizing profits not human need where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a capitalist elite.” WorldNeedsHumansWarHandsTodayWealthResultsPovertyTechnologyConditionsCapitalismCrisisEnvironmentalIncrediblesProfitCapitalistElitesHuman NeedsPrioritizeEnvironmental Crisis Author:Kshama Sawant
“Where solar energy is concerned - and wind energy and battery storage and electric vehicles and efficiency technologies - that is what we are now seeing. So, yes, I'm very optimistic, but anyone who works on the climate crisis has an internal struggle between hope and despair. I won't deny that, but hope has always prevailed in my outlook.” EnergyTechnologyStruggleDespairConcernedCrisisOptimisticVehicleElectricEfficiencyStorageHope And Despair Author:Al Gore
“Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and the danger is so great and the stakes are so high. But I have always resolved that in favour of hope, and actually I'm more hopeful now than I was a decade ago when the solutions were visible on the horizon, but you had to seek reassurance that the technology experts that they're coming, they'll be here.” ChallengesTechnologyDangerDespairSolutionsCrisisDialogueHopefulReassuranceHope And Despair Author:Al Gore
“Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.” NeedsGivenTechnologyCivilizationMoonCrisisEnvironmentalDebtEnormousGoodbyeCivilisationSaying GoodbyeEnvironmental Crisis Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantSaidHappensAgeLawHateDealsMistakeTechnologyPiecesEconomicModernMiddleDiscoveryCrossesCrisisJewHumanitarianSellingGoldenMortalsBurningComing BackMiddle AgesFunny ThingsNeatGolden AgeModern TimesEconomic CrisisHumanitarian Law Book:In the Garden of Iden Source: In the Garden of Iden
“Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can be expected from them alone. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not. We must rethink and refeel our nature and destiny.” ChristianReligiousDestinyTechnologyTroubleSolutionsRootsCrisisExpectedContemplationArroganceOrthodoxRemedyOrthodox Christian Author:Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
“In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.” PeopleWorldHumansProblemGovernmentAgeActorsChallengesResponsibilityTechnologyProgressInspireConflictDiseaseDignityCrisisEnvironmentalHungerBillionsDevelopingCrucialDeniedMinimumProvokingRequirementsCitizenshipDegradationPillarsHuman DignityInterdependenceHolding BackEnvironmental DegradationScience TechnologyShared Responsibility Author:Kofi Annan
“Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.” MenHumansReasonGrowthQualityTechnologyEnvironmentEffectsNew YorkTragedyCrisisSpeciesPopulationNoiseHuman LifeDestructivePollutionDirtEcologicalTokyoSave Mother EarthIntoxicatedPopulation GrowthEcological Crisis Author:Rene Dubos
“Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.” HumansProblemAgeSocialNaturalLevelsEnemyTechnologyBrokenWasteCrisisAgingHistoricalRefusePursuitFamiliarPrivacyNightmareDisorderMasteryCarelessAmerican SocietyClimaxNatural HistoryWallowingIncoherence Author:Paul Shepard
“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” RealProblemHumanityEmotionTechnologyDangerousCrisisInstitutionsFollowingMedievalReal Problems Author:E. O. Wilson
“It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.” WarHumanitySidesTechnologyNegativeCrisisSuccessionAtrocitiesCultural Exchange Author:Abbe Pierre
“One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.” HappensTimeFightingDealsTechnologySocietyConditionsEffectsEmotionalExpressionSolutionsCrisisResponseWesternThings HappenButtonsQuarrelsRelianceImpatient Author:Dalai Lama