Climate Quote by Roger Zelazny
““Raping a planet involves considerable expense. Enormous blasters and slicers and sluicers and refiners are required to reduce a world back almost to a state of primal chaos, and then to extract from it its essential (i.e., commercially viable) ingredients. The history books may tell you of strip-mining on the mother planet, back in ancient times. Well, the crude processes employed then were similar in emphasis and results, but the operations were considerably smaller in size.””
About This Quote
Source Novel: The Doors of His Face, and His Foot, by Roger Zelazny, 1973
Extracting resources from a planet is portrayed as a costly, violent process that reduces worlds to chaos before harvesting valuable materials.
In simple terms: Planetary exploitation is expensive and destructive.
Key Takeaway
Consider the ethical cost of resource extraction.
Themes
exploitation
environment
technology
ethics
Mood
cautionary
reflective
Type
philosophical
critical
When to use this quote
- space mining
- planetary colonization
- environmental policy
- fictional worldbuilding
Key Concepts
resource depletion
colonialism
industrialization
Questions to Reflect On
- What responsibilities do we have to preserve ecosystems?
- How can we balance progress with stewardship?
A Different Perspective
The quote glorifies destruction without addressing sustainability.
