#industrial

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million. ↗

— John Olver

#another #atmosphere #atmospheric #china #co2

I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape - but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community - to society? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#industrialisation #society #working-class #dreams

My company has had a safety program for 150 years. The program was instituted as a result of a French law requiring an explosives manufacturer to live on the premises with his family. ↗

— Crawford Greenwalt

#industrial-plants #laws #liability #safety #family

Religion has accepted and almost “Christianized” the machine, and it is dying from this, whether through absurdity and hypocrisy, as in the past, or through capitulation and suicide, as today. It is as if there were only two sins, unbelief and unchastity; the machine is neither an unbeliever nor is it unchaste; therefore one may sprinkle it with holy water in good conscience. ↗

— Frithjof Schuon

#industrialism #machine #religion #religion

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#books #briefcase #cardboard #carry #faux

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#conditions #economy #essential #exist #german

The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#german #german people #growth #hard #hard work

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter. ↗

— Andrew Card

#country #flawed #industrialized #industrialized country #kyoto

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#control #democracies #exercised #ideological #indoctrination

A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active. ↗

— James Forrestal

#could #durable #durable peace #fund #germany