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
![“The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and boundless confidence in their religion to take care of the future. The result was an ecological disaster leading to a population crash…. Do we have to repeat the experiment on [a] grand scale?… Is the human personality always the same as that of the person who felled the last tree?” quote by Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/390/ronald-wright-25212_confidence_the-islanders-they-write-carried-out-for_667404.jpg)
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