Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it’s bad for everyone. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It’s eating up resources, it’s processing, it’s manufacturing, it’s distributing, it’s consuming. That’s what the computer’s real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can’t have that device without everything that goes with it. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class… I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
I’m a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
I’m sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best tradition and example of land conservation in the world. It goes back a long way. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren’t being taken very seriously. Douglas Tompkins Read Quote
