Douglas Adams was, among other skills, a renowned environmentalist and it seems also a prophet about the level of human intelligence, which has not turned out with the Climate Emergency to be all that much different from this quote from his "Hitchhiker's Guide":- - - - Start of extract: - - - -
“How can you have money,” demanded Ford, “if none of you actually produces anything? It doesn't grow on trees you know.”
“["the management consultant":] If you would allow me to continue.. .”
Ford nodded dejectedly.
“Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich.”
Ford stared in disbelief at the crowd who were murmuring appreciatively at this and greedily fingering the wads of leaves with which their track suits were stuffed.
“But we have also,” continued the management consultant, “run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship’s peanut."
Murmurs of alarm came from the crowd. The management consultant waved them down.
“So in order to obviate this problem,” he continued, “and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and. . .er, burn down all the forests."
Extract source:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/685739-if-the-management-consultant-said-tersely-we-could-for-a
- - - - End of extract - - - -- - - - Start of extract: - - - -""We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it."
Douglas Adams, 04 October, 2014
Extract source:https://bigthink.com/words-of-wisdom/douglas-adams-on-environmentalism
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Douglas Adams was, among other skills, a renowned environmentalist and it seems also a prophet about the level of human intelligence, which has not turned out with the Climate Emergency to be all that much different from this quote from his "Hitchhiker's Guide":
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“How can you have money,” demanded Ford, “if none of you actually produces anything? It doesn't grow on trees you know.”
“["the management consultant":] If you would allow me to continue.. .”
Ford nodded dejectedly.
“Thank you. Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich.”
Ford stared in disbelief at the crowd who were murmuring appreciatively at this and greedily fingering the wads of leaves with which their track suits were stuffed.
“But we have also,” continued the management consultant, “run into a small inflation problem on account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship’s peanut."
Murmurs of alarm came from the crowd. The management consultant waved them down.
“So in order to obviate this problem,” he continued, “and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and. . .er, burn down all the forests."
Extract source:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/685739-if-the-management-consultant-said-tersely-we-could-for-a
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""We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it."
Douglas Adams, 04 October, 2014
Extract source:
https://bigthink.com/words-of-wisdom/douglas-adams-on-environmentalism
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