Our children think our world will end. It’s a tragic thing. Adults don’t think that. They don’t see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%. Yalitza Aparicio Read Quote
After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn’t expect to survive at all. Yalitza Aparicio Read Quote
No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you. Yalitza Aparicio Read Quote
I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for ‘National Geographic,’ and they gave us a lot of film. Yalitza Aparicio Read Quote
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players. Yalitza Aparicio Read Quote
Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American ‘invention.’ The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone. Yalitza Aparicio Read Quote
I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me. Yalitza Aparicio Read Quote
The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency. Yalitza Aparicio Read Quote
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military’s might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks. Yalitza Aparicio Read Quote
Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value. Yalitza Aparicio Read Quote
