Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Soon after man shows up in new lands, the big game starts to go missing. […] A bad smell of extinction follows Home sapiens… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
