There's Jevon's paradox that the better we get at efficiently using energy the more energy we use; so that and that machine technology improvements per se do not necessarily reduce our impacts because we immediately double down on how much we use.
Kim Stanley RobinsonWe dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
Kim Stanley RobinsonThat's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
Kim Stanley RobinsonWhen some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave dรฉjร vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.
Kim Stanley RobinsonThe sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
Kim Stanley RobinsonWe ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the technology and writing of the technology and the social justice of the technology in what social justice does is reduce impacts on the Earth because the most impact is from the poorest and richest people.
Kim Stanley Robinson