#industrial

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#clash #clearly #goods #happens #i

The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#could #countries #day #four #industrial

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#bottom line #buy #cared #company #concerns

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#better #biggest #both #britain #each

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#good #industrial #industrial revolution #introduction #nutritionally

Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#could #danger #especially #good #industrial

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#appropriation #characterized #characterizes #day #european

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#axiom #enforced #experience #industrially #politically

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. ↗

— David R. Brower

#applying #back #began #energy #environment