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Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy…
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Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context,…
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The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce…
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The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past…
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As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis…
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What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices.
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If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely…
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Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with.
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The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to…
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When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to…
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Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest…
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We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of…
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules…
— Annie Besant
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but…
— Annie Besant
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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping…
— Bill Bryson
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
— James Buchan
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We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation,…
— David Cameron
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Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
— Thomas Jefferson
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -…
— Yehudi Menuhin
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Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
— Vera Brittain
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look…
— Swami Vivekananda
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What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a…
— Carl Sagan
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