Quotes by Aric McBay

Further, any way of life based on the importation of resources is also functionally based on violence, because if your way of life requires the importation of resources, trade will never be sufficiently reliable: if people in the next watershed over wont trade you for some necessary resource, you will take it, because you need it. So, to bring this to the present, we could all become enlightened, and the US military would still have to be huge: how else will they get access to the oil they need to run the economy, oil that just happens to lie under someone elses land? The point is that no matter what we think of the irredeemability of this cultures mass psychology or system of rewards, this culture–civilization–is also irredeemable on a purely functional level.

The dominant culture eats entire biomes. No, that is too generous, because eating implies a natural biological relationship. This culture doesnt just consume ecosystems, it obliterates them, it murders them, one after another. This culture is an ecological serial killer, and its long past time for us to recognize the pattern.