Prosper! Quotes

“there are two ways that people decide to change: by insight, and by pain”
― Chris Martenson, Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting

“preparing before a crisis hits is responsible and selfless, but trying to accumulate necessary items during a crisis is an act of hoarding”
― Chris Martenson, Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting

“In that gap between one’s thoughts and one’s actions is where anxiety and fear live and breed.”
― Chris Martenson, Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting

“Add up all the Three Es and you see we have: 1.an economy that must expand, connected to 2.an energy system that cannot expand, all wrapped up in 3.an environment that is both being depleted of resources and saturated with pollutants. The inescapable conclusion to all this? Things are going to change. Big time.”
― Chris Martenson, Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting

“For every one calorie of food you eat, ten calories of (rapidly depleting) fossil fuels are stealthily expended in producing it.”
― Chris Martenson, Prosper!: How to Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting