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| Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun. (Thomas Edison) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment—that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption—and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities. (Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems. (Richard Heinberg) | [▲] | [▼] |
| First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe.... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it! It only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic servant! (Henry David Thoreau) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight. (George Gobel) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The United States has compensated for its production decline by importing oil. The planet does not have that option. (Russell A. Brown) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species—and humans in past social regimes—is to me so self-servingly blind as to be morally reprehensible. (Richard Heinberg) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We've embarked on the beginning of the last days of the age of oil. (Mike Bowlin) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Highlights from the "Top Ten Ways Dumb Guys Would Lower Gas Prices" - Sell gas by the half-gallon. - Build time machine, drive back to 1965 when gas was cheap. - Step one: Oprah buys all the gas. Step two: Oprah gives the gas away. (David Letterman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We wanted albacore on the list of fish not to eat. We knew that wouldn't happen because of the pressure from the industry, but we certainly didn't think there should be a recommendation to eat [as much as] six ounces of albacore. (Vas Aposhian) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Salmon farming—the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish—was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the industry has expanded to Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the US, and Chile, but is dominated by the same multinational corporations. Wherever it is practiced, net-cage salmon farming is controversial and raises serious environmental concerns. (David Suzuki Foundation) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. (Steven Wright) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Food is our common ground, a universal experience. (James Beard) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Those concerned with the fight against disease know that our bodies are designed to overcome disease processes before they become established. Our systems are readily disrupted by toxins and an absence of sufficient quantities of nutrients. (Nutritional Cancer Therapy Trust) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The burden of food-related ill health measured in terms of mortality and morbidity is similar to that attributable to smoking.... The vast majority of the burden is attributable to unhealthy diets rather than to food-borne diseases. (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health) | [▲] | [▼] |
| One's stomach is one's internal environment. (Samuel Butler) | [▲] | [▼] |
| True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack. (Dr. Andrew Weil) | [▲] | [▼] |
| As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate. (Sandra Boynton) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane. (June Henderson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it. (David Wolfe) | [▲] | [▼] |