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“Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“I remember adapt,” says Toby. “It was another way of saying tough luck. To people you weren’t going to help out.”
― MaddAddam
― MaddAddam
“We’re using up the Earth. It’s almost gone. You can’t live with such fears and keep on whistling. The waiting builds up in you like a tide. You start wanting it to be done with. You find yourself saying to the sky, Just do it. Do your worst. Get it over with.”
― The Year of the Flood
― The Year of the Flood
“If flying-saucer creatures or angels or whatever were to come here in a hundred years, say, and find us gone like the dinosaurs, what might be a good message for humanity to leave for them, maybe carved in great big letters on a Grand Canyon wall? Here is this old poop's suggestion: WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SAVED OURSELVES, BUT WERE TOO DAMNED LAZY TO TRY VERY HARD...”
― Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage
― Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage
“As the effects of global warming become more and more difficult to ignore, will we react by finally fashioning a global response? Or will we retreat into ever narrower and more destructive forms of self-interest? It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.”
― Field Notes from a Catastrophe
― Field Notes from a Catastrophe
