October 29, 2009 -- "We have no other word but crisis to describe it,
really. It's very different than the economic crisis that we are now in,
in the sense that even a very, very severe economic crisis, such as the
one that has been present since late 2007 ... still is, in many ways, a
cyclical event... These crises are periodic -- it's part of the nature
of capitalism...

"But what we are talking about as the world ecological crisis is another
kind of crisis. We are not talking -- as some of the contrarians say, as
some of the sceptics say – of something that is a cyclical event in
earth history. What we are talking about is a terminal crisis. What the
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is telling us,
what ecologists are telling us, what scientists in general are telling
us is that If we continue on present trends, if we continue to follow
business as usual, that is follow the present economic path, and the
present technological and social path with respect to the environment,
then it will be a terminal crisis, in the sense that we will destroy
most of the species on the planet, human civilisation, and ourselves
perhaps as well." -- John Bellamy Foster

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