Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumThree Quotes From John Brunner
" . . .and Dr. Isaiah Williams, whose body was recovered from a ravine near San Pablo. Inquiries are being hampered by what an Army spokesman termed the obstinate attitude of the local people. They wont admit they know their left hands from their right, he asserted. Here at home Senator Richard Howell (Rep., Col.) today launched a fierce attack on the quote chlorophyll addicts unquote who, he claims, are hamstringing American business, already staggering under the load of high unemployment and recession, by insisting that our manufacturers comply with regulations ignored by foreign competition. In Southern Italy rioting continues in many small towns formerly dependent on fishing. Meantime, dust storms in the Camargue . . ."
"When the politicians claim that the public isnt interested any longer in environmental conservation, theyre half right. People are actually afraid to be interested, because they suspectI think rightlythat well find if we dig deep enough that weve gone so far beyond the limits of what the planet will tolerate that only a major catastrophe which cuts back both our population and our ability to interfere with the natural biocycle would offer a chance of survival."
"What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incapable of explaining it to anyone who might help, was that in spite of the evidence around them, in spite of what their eyes and ears reportedand sometimes their flesh, from bruises, stab wounds, racking coughs, weeping soresthese people believed their way of life was the best in the world, and were prepared to export it at the point of a gun."
From The Sheep Look Up - 1972
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Some people knew what was up 40 years ago. I think this one goes on my re-read list.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)If You Have, Notify Authorities Right Away!
eridani
(51,907 posts)"Coincidence: you weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on."
His work is startlingly prescient.
Nay
(12,051 posts)truth of it even back then. It's sad that it has basically come true.