Rebecca Solnit Quotes

Everyone Talks About Green Cities Now, But The Concrete Results In Affluent Cities Mostly Involve Curbside Composting And Tackling Solar Panels Onto Rooftops While Residents Continue To Drive, To Stop, To Eat Organic Pears Flown In From Argentina, To Be Part Of The Big Machine Of Consumption And Climate Change. The Free-range Chickens And Priuses Are Great, But They Alone Aren't Adequate Tools For Creating A Truly Different Society And Ecology. The Future, At Least The Sustainable One, Isn't Going To Be Invented By People Who Are Happily Surrendering Selective Bits And Pieces Of Environmentally Unsound Privilege. It's Going To Be Made By Those Who Had All That Taken Away From Them Or Never Had It In The First Place. {...} There Is No Moral Reason Why They Should Do And Be Better Than The Rest Of Us - But There Is A Practical One. They Have To. Detroit Is Where Change Is Most Urgent And Therefore Most Viable.

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