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"The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part."
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"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."
"It's no use talking about the 'Doomsday Clock' when it has already chimed. But, alas, the chimes fell on deaf ears."
"Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year."
"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."
"Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs."
"The addition of certain chemicals to the atmosphere will destroy wavelengths of light and it may only be a matter of time before one of these wavelengths of light that is critical for human survival is eliminated. This is called: The Extinction Wavelength."
"We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh."
"Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence."
"We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with electrified glass that emits electromagnetic intereference (EMI) does to the global environment."
"Utility electricity is a known hazardous biological toxin and the toxicity of it is increasing as it progresses into harmonic electronic power generation (Wind & Solar) and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation smart/AMR/AMI meters."
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"The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other."
"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."
"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."
"The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing."
"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down."
"But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions."
"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
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