#stems

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. ↗

— David Suzuki

#alive #allows #amount #biodiversity #destroy

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced. ↗

— David Suzuki

#beyond #businesses #causing #change #climate

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. ↗

— Don Marquis

#devil #figures #going #keep #male

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#building #complex #doing #europe #find

However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems. ↗

— Robert Huber

#also #before #community #disorder #flexibility

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#brutally #designed #fits #harmony #institution

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#arrest #because #before #both #computer

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#constructing #correspond #knowing #less #means

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#broad #campaign #capturing #ending #holding

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things. ↗

— Philip Slater

#commercialism #economy #endless-circles #failed-systems #greed