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If kindness and comfort are, as I suspect, the results of an energy surplus, then, as the supply contracts, we could be expected to start fighting once again like cats in a sack.
- George Monbiot
The infrastructure of suburbia can be described as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world
- James Howard Kunstler
No civilization can survive the physical destruction of its resource base
- Bruce Sterling
How could it be otherwise ? - Jay Hanson
It may be eclipsed by the anti-EU musings of the current Czech president, but the influence of Vaclav Havel lives on Exporting Dissent: Made in the Czech Republic
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