Civilization Quote by Richard Heinberg

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

— Maurice Strong

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

“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

We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.

— Hari Sreenivasan

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

— Maurice Strong

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

— James Howard Kunstler

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So,…

— K. Eric Drexler

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop…

— Aldous Huxley

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis,…

— Muhammad Yunus

We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have…

— Jose Mujica

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the…

— Paul Hawken

“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