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I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better… — Wendell Berry
If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the… — Wendell Berry
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering… — Prince Charles
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society. — Edward Abbey
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse. — Edward Abbey
The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature. — Edward Abbey
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and… — Edward Abbey
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a… — Frederic Bastiat
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity. — Herbert Marcuse
I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the… — John F. Kennedy
We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive… — John F. Kennedy
In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and therefore… — Poul Anderson
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. — William Graham Sumner
The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we… — Walter Wriston
This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know… — Seth Godin
Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to… — Gary Bauer
Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered,… — Michael E. Mann
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the… — George W. Bush
Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have… — Michael Meacher
Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength. — Susane Colasanti
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my… — Leo Baekeland
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. — Steven Levy
We are on track for a 3.5 deg C rise by 2040 (i.e. 4.2 deg C relative to pre-industrial)... When I look at this data,… — Fatih Birol

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