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• So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human with nature, is the best. We could make a scale with that in mind, and judge any technology by its place on that scale: speech and eyeglasses, say, would rank low; nuclear bombs and coal plants, high.

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  Technology, Eyeglasses, Judging

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• Esa es sin duda la cuestión: cuando nació la especie humana, en la sabana africana, la vida era bastante buena; podíamos vivir en armonía con el resto de la naturaleza, y eso es lo que he venido llamando Edén. Las únicas tecnologías que los humanos idearon durante unos 2 millones de años fueron el fuego y el hacha de mano. Nada más. El Edén no necesitaba nada más

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  Technology, Fire, Hands

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• Los gobiernos, que existen principalmente para proteger y potenciar el capitalismo, mantienen su poder mediante el uso de tecnologías que controlan a la población: mediante el pan o el circo, mediante la guerra o la educación, mediante ejércitos y policías, todo ello facilitado y potenciado por la tecnología. Esto es lo que podríamos llamar el palo del capitalismo, mientras que la riqueza para unos pocos es la zanahoria.

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  War, Army, Technology

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• It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is why it's created, to do something to or with nature that wasn't there before, that wasn't natural.

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  Technology, Understanding, Facts

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• Todo el mundo es tímido - es la modestia innata que nos hace capaces de vivir en armonía con otras criaturas y nuestros semejantes. Los logros no se consiguen negando la timidez, sino, en ocasiones, dejándola a un lado y permitiendo que el orgullo y la transpiración sean lo primero.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Pride

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• When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans to manipulate it. I mean that sense of nature that Aldo Leopold had in mind when he said, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community, wrong when it tends otherwise.

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  Integrity, Mean, Community

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• My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's willingness to enslave ourselves to machines - because some people benefit enormously from it, while the costs are borne by other people and the planet.

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  Civilization, People, Analysis

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• The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic, oppressive, repressive, but you don't want to move to Canada or France, what do you do? Well, the way is through secession, where you could stay home and be where you want to be.

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  Mistake, Moving, Home

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• I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler - and the technologies, too. Then we will have come full circle to something like life on the savanna.

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  Technology, Circles, Two

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• I want to leave my country without leaving my home.

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  Country, Home, Leaving

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• Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

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  Government, Size, Misery

  Kirkpatrick Sale (2017). “Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future”, p.64, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Esa es la embestida. Lleva produciéndose mucho tiempo, sostengo, pero en el siglo XX los humanos la han perfeccionado sin duda, extendiendo la dominación a todos los rincones de la Tierra y nuestra población de Homo sapiens a más de 6.000 millones, hasta que ningún lugar ha quedado intacto por el expolio.

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  Long, Population, Earth

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• Y sólo cuando inventamos la lanza y empezamos a recorrer el planeta, las tecnologías se volvieron complejas y fundamentales para la supervivencia humana.

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  Technology, Survival, Roaming

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