The future's already here - it's just unevenly distributed. (Attributed to William Gibson.)
We need to reduce our standard of living in order to improve our quality of life. (That's by me.)
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. (H L Mencken)
The big picture, the long term, and the common good. (Should be the basis for every decision we make.)
Nobody wins unless everybody wins (from a Canadian politician in Michael Moore's film Bowling for Columbine)
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. (H L Mencken)
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. (Albert Allen Bartlett)
Speaking of which: here's Bartlett's amazing polemic about our unsustainable lifestyle:
It's one of 8 videos which I highly recommend.
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