Civilization Quote by Maurice Strong

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?

— Maurice Strong

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

“The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and…

— Carolyn Baker

It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet the overall…

— Richard Heinberg

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

— James Howard Kunstler

In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink…

— Felix Dodds

If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.

— Judi Bari

We won't rescue humanity from self-destruction without a dramatic change in how we invest for our future energy needs.

— Ed Davey

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

— William H. Calvin

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

— Peter Drucker

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

We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.

— Paul Hawken