Civil society Quote by Daniel Suarez

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

— Jacque Fresco

If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we…

— Alan Thein Durning

I think capitalism will not disappear, but it's going to increasingly not be the exclusive arbiter of economic life. It's going to have to…

— Jeremy Rifkin

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social breakdown of our outdated monetary and…

— Jacque Fresco

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the…

— Jeremy Rifkin

In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are…

— David de Kretser

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually…

— Lester R. Brown

Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a…

— Paul Raskin

Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost…

— Jeremy Grantham

Will we follow the course of societies past that have lost their way and crumbled under the devastating forces of economic upheaval, war and…

— Oliver DeMille

“No successes we might have are guaranteed to last as long as industrial civilization stands. Conversely, most of our losses are effectively permanent. Extinct…

— Aric McBay