"So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us."

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Source : Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

Naomi Klein

#Fate Quotes #Our World Quotes #Choices Quotes

“All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?”
“If there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism!”
“Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game”
“Nakedness is very common in the tribe. It is not a shameful thing; it is an expression of one's relationship with the spirit of nature. To be naked is to be open-hearted. Normally kids stay naked until puberty and even beyond. It was only with the introduction of cheap cloth from the West, through Goodwill and other Christian organisations, that nakedness began to be associated with shame.”

Source : Malidoma Patrice Somé (1994). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Tarcher
“Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.”

Source : David C. Korten (2010). “Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com
“System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen in any of its constituent parts. This is the process called "emergence."”

Source : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.
“I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind”
“The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.”

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