Citas de Simon Dunlop de “The Overstory”, Richard Powers

Do you believe human beings are using resources faster than the world can replace them?”
The question seems so far beyond calculation it’s meaningless. Then some small jam in him dislodges, and it’s like an unblinding. “Yes.”
“Thank you!” She’s pleased with her overgrown pupil. He grins back. Maidenhair’s head bobs forward and her eyebrows flare. “And would you say that the rate is falling or rising?”
He has seen the graphs. Everyone has. Ignition has only just started.
“It’s so simple,” she says. “So obvious. Exponential growth inside a finite system leads to collapse.

You’ll want to learn what your work’s been up to, while you were gone.”

s if forests were waiting all these four hundred million years for us newcomers to come cure them. Science in the service of willful blindness:

She sees it in one great glimpse of flashing gold: trees and humans, at war over the land and water and atmosphere. And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.

. Only one conclusion makes any sense: The wounded trees send out alarms that other trees smell. Her maples are signaling