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By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay
Global Research, October 7, 2011
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26983
"Men accept change only when it is a necessity, and they see a necessity only in a crisis.”Jean Monnet (1888-1979), French political economist and statesman
“I have two great enemies, the southern army in front of me and the financial institutions, in the rear. Of the two, the one in the rear is the greatest enemy….. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States (1861-65)
“The faster the present generation draws down the fossil energy legacy upon which persistently exuberant lifestyles now depend, the less opportunity posterity will have to live in anything like the same way or the same numbers. Yet most contemporary political proposals for solving problems of economic stagnation or inequity amount to plans for speeding up the rate of drawdown of non-renewable resources.” William Catton, American environmental sociologist and population ecologist
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