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I ordered a steak and was given a metal fork and a black plastic picnic knife…I noticed across from me sat a man with a “Don’t F*&k With Texas” t-shirt on who was also trying to cut his steak with the same utensil…As I labored to cut my own steak with the ridiculous plastic knife I thought, they already f*&ked with Texas and no one even seems to notice.
The Ecotechnic Future by John Michael Greer, page 219
Human limits, not human power, define the situation we face today because the technological revolutions and economic boom times that most modern people take for granted were a product, not of science or such impressive intangibles as “the human spirit,” but simply a brief period of extravagance in which we squandered half a billion years of stored sunlight.