Forms Of Conservation

We all give our hearts far more readily than our money.
—  Anton Chekov
The cheapest and most environmentally sound new source of water is conservation of the existing water supply.
—  Antonio Rossmann
(Quoted in the) New York Times
[Apologies.  No more specific citation was recorded in my journal.  —  KMAB]
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A Bad Sale

The future we have been sold doesn’t work.  Applying the principles of the factory floor to the natural world just doesn’t work.  Farming is more than a business.  Food is more than a commodity.  Land is more than a mineral resource.
—  James Rebanks
(An English farmer’s account of the changes he is seeing)
as quoted by:    Andrew Sullivan
From Sullivan’s opinion piece / article:  “Our President’s Emotional Bait and Switch“
Which I found on www.msn.com at:  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/our-president%e2%80%99s-emotional-bait-and-switch/ar-AAnKTg4
That, in turn referenced the New York Times at:   http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/opinion/an-english-sheep-farmers-view-of-rural-america.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
Sullivan’s article originally appearing in: “Daily Intelligencer“
Which is a section under New York Magazine
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We Cannot Afford Enemies

We cannot afford enemies any more …  Within a generation or two human society will be in total destructive disarray.  Heaven knows how bad it will be.  The most optimistic view I can take is this: Things will get so bad within a dozen years that it will become obvious … that we must, whether were like each other or not, work together.  We have no choice in the matter. … Technologically, we can stop overpopulation, but we have to persuade people to accept the technology. …  Babies are the enemies of the human race …  Let’s consider it this way: by the time the world doubles its population, the amount of energy we will be using will be increased sevenfold which means probably the amount of pollution that we are producing will also be increased sevenfold.  If we are now threatened by pollution at the present rate, how will we be threatened with sevenfold pollution by, say, 2010 A.D., distributed among twice the population?  We’ll be having to grow twice the food out of soil that is being poisoned at seven times the rate.
—  Isaac Asimov
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Survival Instinct

First, be a good animal.
—  Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Are you still denying global climate change?  If I am incorrect and there is no such thing, the economy dips for a few years.  Okay.  But what if you’re wrong?  Then what?  —  KMAB]
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Wavelengths Of The Earth

Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth.  When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful.  Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.
—  Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
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More Likely

Perhaps man, having remade his environment, will turn around at last and begin to remake himself.
—  Will Durant
[More likely, having destroyed the environment, man will be replaced by a new “dominant” species on Earth.  —  KMAB]
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What The Right STILL Wants

There is a pattern here; in fact, pretty much the same story can be told about energy policy, environmental policy, health care policy, education policy, and so on.  In each case the officials making policy within the Bush administration have a history of highly radical views, which should suggest that the administration itself has radical goals.  But in each case the administration has reassured moderates by pretending otherwise —  by offering rationales for its policy that don’t seem all that radical.  And in each case moderates have followed a strategy of appeasement, trying to meet the administration halfway while downplaying both the radicalism of its policies and the trail of broken promises.  The young Kissinger had it right: people who have been accustomed to stability can’t bring themselves to believe what is happening when faced with a revolutionary power, and are therefore ineffective in opposing it.
I should admit at this point that I am not entirely sure why this is happening — why we are now faced with such a radical challenge to our political and social system.  Rich people did very well in the 1990s; why this hatred of anything that looks remotely like income redistribution?  Corporations have flourished; why this urge to strip away modest environmental regulation?  Churches of all denominations have prospered; why this attack on the separation of church and state?  American power and influence have never been greater; why this drive to destroy our alliances and embark on military adventures?  Nonetheless, it’s increasingly clear that the right wants to do all these things.
—  Paul Krugman From his book: “The Great Unraveling“
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