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>...irreplaceable and yet they were actively trying to get rid of them... There are no words. Best response I can offer is Kurt Vonnegut's quote: "We'll go do

>...irreplaceable and yet they were actively trying to get rid of them... There are no words. Best response I can offer is Kurt Vonnegut's quote: "We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective."

class3shock 3y ago
So it goes...
throw0101c 3y ago
> "We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective." Meta: Is it Vonnegut? * https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11432253-we-ll-go-down-in-history-as-the-first-society-that https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11432253-we-ll-go-down-in-h... > “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” Often attributed to Kurt Vonnegut, sometimes to Donella Meadows, it’s one of those quotes that’s so good, it seems to have multiple claims of ancestry. > Wherever it came from and however accurately it may have described the blinkered bookkeepers, Akshat Rathi wants you to know it’s not true anymore. “It’s now cheaper to save the world than destroy it,” he declares at the opening of his new book, Climate Capitalism: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age. * https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/03/18/opinion/climate-capitalists https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/03/18/opinion/climate-...
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