Sublime

"Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course," and then continued,"Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter

trees and humans, at war over the land and water and atmosphere. And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.

Ralph Nader’s book entitled In Pursuit of Justice in which he quotes the words of conservationist David Brower, who states that, “We’re not blindly opposed to progress, we’re opposed to blind progress.”

loved our cheap gas and big cars more than we cared about the environment, except when a complete disaster was staring us in the face; and in the absence of such a disaster, the media rarely covered efforts to shift America off fossil fuels or pass climate legislation, since actually educating the public on long-term energy policy would be boring

among the largest items are abandoned or damaged fishing nets that can ensnare fishes, dolphins, and often

When we disturb nature at its own scale—as with our “extinction engine” and greenhouse gases of recent times—we risk triggering apocalyptic forces. Like it or not, we now have to comprehend and engage the still Longer Now of nature.

They challenged the widely accepted post–World War II consensus that an activist government was a force for public good.