Bill McKibben Quotes About Future

Quotes about: Future

• "Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.

  Bill McKibben

  Future, Two, People

• The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.

  Bill McKibben

  Future, Long, Desire

• A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place.

  Bill McKibben

  Running, Future, Long

  "An End to Sweet Illusions" by Bill McKibben, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2002.

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