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Quote for the day – October 25

25 Sunday Oct 2015

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Bright Green Lies, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert

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“The industrial economy is based on systematic theft from land bases, and the conversion of these living communities into dead products. That’s what an industrial economy is. The economy does not create value for the real world: It destroys the real world”.

Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert, Bright Green Lies:

[Read about Derrick Jensen on the orgrad website]

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Quote for the day – August 16

16 Sunday Aug 2015

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Ranchor Prime

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“No one can deny that the industrial way of life is what has brought us to the crisis we face today”.

Ranchor Prime, Vedic Ecology: Practical Wisdom for Surviving the 21st Century

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Quote for the day – June 28

28 Sunday Jun 2015

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Guy Debord

“There remains nothing, in culture or in nature, which has not been transformed, and polluted, according to the means and interests of modern industry”.

Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle

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Quote for the day – April 26

26 Sunday Apr 2015

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Jacques Ellul

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“When it’s a question of the dangers, costs, and so on, the scientist or technician, who has run out of arguments, closes down the discussion with ‘In any case, we can’t stand in the way of progress’. There is thus something here which is absolute, unassailable, against which we can do absolutely nothing, which human beings must simply obey”.

Jacques Ellul, Le bluff technologique

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