pcawdronJul 27, 2023
"We will go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective" Kurt Vonnegut
Show threadOwlet of MinervaJul 27, 2023

@pcawdron I don’t think Vonnegut ever said that, though the pessimism is certainly his. (I have also seen the quote attributed to Donella H. Meadows, but that doesn’t ring true to me and I’ve yet to find an actual reference.)

Vonnegut definitely did write this, though: “The good Earth—we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy.” (A Man Without A Country, 2005)

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@noctuaminervae @pcawdron My favorite quote from Vonnegut was in a book of essays he published late in life.

"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."

Jul 27, 2023 at 10:50pmWeb
Show threadOwlet of MinervaJul 28, 2023
@FirefighterGeek @pcawdron Same book!