Analogies Quote by Vaclav Smil

The value of solar and wind decline in economic value as they become larger shares of the electricity grid for physical reasons. They produce…

— Michael Shellenberger

Both solar and wind produce too much energy when societies don't need it, and not enough when they do.

— Michael Shellenberger

If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half…

— Laurence Sterne

“The ability of individuals to extract wealth from society by profiting from land also leads to cultural degeneration and a loss of social cohesion…

— Martin Adams

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

— William E. Gladstone

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

— Helen Clark MacInnes

“Cyclical time already dominates the experience of nomadic populations because they find the same conditions repeated at every moment of their journey: Hegel notes…

— Debord

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only the wise…

— Henry David Thoreau

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

— George Orwell

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

— Fidel Castro

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come…

— Susan George

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

— Mahatma Gandhi