****A Collection of Kurt Vonnegut Quotes on Oil and the Environment***

[Seneca]

"What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world."



"But I’ll tell you one thing: I once had a high that not even crack cocaine could match. That was when I got my first driver’s license! Look out, world, here comes Kurt Vonnegut.

And my car back then, a Studebaker, as I recall, was powered, as are almost all means of transportation and other machinery today, and electric power plants and furnaces, by the most abused and addictive and destructive drugs of all: fossil fuels.

When you got here, even when I got here, the industrialized world was already hopelessly hooked on fossil fuels, and very soon now there won’t be any more of those. Cold turkey.

Can I tell you the truth? I mean this isn’t like TV news, is it?

Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on."



"The good Earth — we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy."

[EFerrari]

1. And so it goes.

I miss him. :)

[azul]

5. And how.

bout my favorite quote:

"The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were."

Aloha

[Seneca]

9. Same here

I am re-reading 'A Man Without A Country', which gave me the idea for this thread.

[ShamelessHussy]

2. my favorite american writer... he is truly missed, and right as usual

his comments and writings helped get me through the neoCON years :cry:

a great soul

[ixion]

3. Hi-Ho. I guess it's time to re-read Cat's Cradle

as we destroy the Gulf and the Earth day-by-day.

Vonnegut is, was, and always will be one of my most favorite writers.

[Bonobo]

4. Take a flying fuck at a doughnut...

Take a flying fuck at the MOOOOON!!

[Orsino]

6. It doesn't have to be the end of the world, or of civilization...

...but our inability to make the big commitments may guarantee it.

[Cleobulus]

10. Not the end of the world, but the end of a lot of lives...

I'm still trying to see how the world can feed people without industrial agriculture, the carrying capacity of the Earth, based on non petroleum based agriculture, is estimated to be around 1.3 billion people, we have many times that many people on the planet now.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Here's one that's true:

"You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet."
— Kurt Vonnegut ( in Deadeye Dick)

[Seneca]

8. Kick for the late morning/early afternoon readers