Veil Quotes

“The UN failed to accomplish much of anything. National governments failed to accomplish much of anything. The private sector failed to accomplish much of anything. The scientific community failed to accomplish much of anything. Environmental activists failed to accomplish much of anything. Those failures mean business-as-usual continues and business-as-usual means condemning future generations to climate hell.”
― Eliot Peper, Veil

“Humanity was burning fossil fuel and releasing greenhouse gas like a hormone-addled teenager.”
― Eliot Peper, Veil

“Clarity is forging your imagination into a pebble that, when tossed, will ripple through other minds.”
― Eliot Peper, Veil

“When New Orleans is destroyed and rebuilt, again and again, is that a failure of the Army Corps of Engineers, or is it the inevitable result of trying to build a coastal city below sea level? When that earthquake hit Ecuador, every death could have been prevented with better building codes. Those wildfires in British Columbia wouldn’t have been so destructive without decades of counterproductive fire suppression. I mean, look at the story you’re working on. How much less screwed would most Maldivians be if their own government wasn’t trying to profit from tragedy? The real disasters are poverty and shortsightedness. Systemic injustice turns disadvantaged into human shields against the brute force of nature pursuing its normal course. We create victims, and then we congratulate ourselves when we show them small mercies.”
― Eliot Peper, Veil

“no such thing as a natural disaster, only human disasters revealed by nature.”
― Eliot Peper, Veil

“systems just broken enough to keep chugging, regardless of who they hurt, as long as the people who benefit from the status quo oil the gears once in a while.”
― Eliot Peper, Veil

“Because people suck at making collective decisions!”
― Eliot Peper, Veil