10 insightful quotes by jeremy rifkin
- Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.
- When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?
- Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I’m sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.
- The most important question facing humanity is this: Can we reach global empathy in time to avoid the collapse of civilization and save the Earth?
- Studies conducted around the world have shown a close correlation between materialist values, depression, and substance abuse.
- Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.
- The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.
- We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
- The industry’s not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled ‘genetically engineered’, the public will shy away and won’t take them.
- The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you’re a farmer and you’re growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.
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