"Extinction is not something to contemplate.
It is something to rebel against."
- Dr. Helen Caldicott

“We have geared the machines and locked all together
Into interdependence
We have built great cities;
Now there is no escape.

We have gathered vast populations incapable of free survival

Insulated from the strong earth,
Each person he himself helpless, on all dependent,

The circle is closed,
And the net is being hauled in.”
-Robinson Jeffers

"There are no... limits to the carrying capacity of the earth that are likely to bind any
time in the foreseeable future. There isn't a risk of an apocalypse due to global
warming or anything else. The idea that we should put limits on growth because of
some natural limit, is a profound error and one that, were it ever to prove influential,
would have staggering social costs."
-Lawrence H. Summers, World Bank chief economist, Nov 10, 1991.

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill."
-Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution

“Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.”
-Henrik Ibsen

‘‘...it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted
promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental
changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from
that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating
radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed
and fully explored.’’
-Milton Friedman, Professor (Emeritus) of Economics at the University of Chicago and Hoover Institution Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University.

"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy."
-Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation

"On the very deceptions which the hostile light of knowledge should dissipate, they have based the whole structure of their happiness, and are they to purchase so dearly a truth which begins by depriving them of everything they value?"
-Friedrich Schiller

“The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.”
-Michael Parenti