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• ...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which…
• Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad—yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it.…
• A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern…
• I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone.…
• Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well…
• Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine,…

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