QUOTES
Do
you believe that this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane
and sustainable way of living? How would this understanding — that this culture
will not voluntarily stop destroying the natural world, eliminating indigenous
cultures, exploiting the poor, and killing those who resist — shift our strategy
and tactics? The answer? Nobody knows, because we never talk about it: we’re too
busy pretending the culture will undergo a magical transformation.
“If
monetary value is attached to something it will be exploited until it’s gone.
That’s what happens when you convert living beings to cash. That conversion, from
living forests to lumber, schools of cod to fish sticks, and onward to numbers
on a ledger, is the central process of our economic system.”
“If
the destruction of the natural world isn’t making us happy, then why are we doing
it?”
