Love Does Not Imply Pacifism.

To Pretend That Civilization Can Exist Without Destroying Its Own Landbase And The Landbases And Cultures Of Others Is To Be Entirely Ignorant Of History, Biology, Thermodynamics, Morality, And Self-preservation.

To Reverse The Effects Of Civilization Would Destroy The Dreams Of A Lot Of People. There's No Way Around It. We Can Talk All We Want About Sustainability, But There's A Sense In Which It Doesn't Matter That These People's Dreams Are Based On, Embedded In, Intertwined With, And Formed By An Inherently Destructive Economic And Social System. Their Dreams Are Still Their Dreams. What Right Do I -- Or Does Anyone Else -- Have To Destroy Them. At The Same Time, What Right Do They Have To Destroy The World?

I've Since Come To Understand The Reason School Lasts Thirteen Years. It Takes That Long To Sufficiently Break A Child's Will. It Is Not Easy To Disconnect Children's Wills, To Disconnect Them From Their Own Experiences Of The World In Preparation For The Lives Of Painful Employment They Will Have To Endure.

No Matter What We Call It, Poison Is Still Poison, Death Is Still Death, And Industrial Civilization Is Still Causing The Greatest Mass Extinction In The History Of The Planet.

We Have Been Too Kind To Those Who Are Killing The Planet. We Have Been Inexcusably, Unforgivably, Insanely Kind.