Quotes about Economic Disaster from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "The growers, desperate to avoid economic disaster, invited Charles Riley, chief of the U.S. Division of Entomology in the Bureau of Agriculture (now the USDA), to be the principal speaker at their annual Convention of Fruit Growers in 1887.
Riley proposed a plan of action for the anxious growers. He believed that cottony cushion scale came from Australia or possibly New Zealand. Albert Koebele, an employee of the Bureau of Agriculture, was studying the history and habits of insects in California."- Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "For the farmers, Rockefeller's elegant solution meant economic disaster. Farmer collectives had planned to build alcohol-distillation plants and expected to supply part of the auto and tractor industry's fuel needs. When the gasoline makers sold gas for a penny or two a gallon, the ethanol producers on the farms saw their hoped-for market for motor fuel evaporate. As the nineteenth century progressed, scientists and industrialists began to worry out loud about food shortages." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) |
 "The high capital costs of mechanization can be an economic disaster for a small operation. A farm musr be large to profitably use technology-intensive methods instead of labor-intensive methods. Sold on the idea that modernizing meant mechanizing, small farms sank into debt once overleveraged; large companies then bought up their land. This process may not help small farms stay in family hands, but it pumps a lot of cash into companies that produce farm equipment and supplies—and advise farmers how to use their products."- David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
 "No doubt similar rude awakenings will occur as the first phase of the coming financial and economic disaster begins to unfold, thanks to incoherence and incompetence in Washington and an unexpectedly restrained and increasingly out-of-touch Federal Reserve. The growth of securitization, an increasing reliance on variable-rate financing, the shift away from defined-benefit pensions, the rise of outsourcing and the service-based economy, the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act, and other developments will ensure that ordinary Americans bear the full brunt of the pain as the economy crumbles."- Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) "Even so, many of those who have a job at the outset of the coming economic disaster will quickly find themselves out on the street as conditions deteriorate. Falling demand, rising interest rates, growing trade wars, a depressing outlook—all will take their toll on headcounts, causing unemployment to soar. Although it might seem like tempting fate, sometimes the best way to plan ahead under such circumstances is to assume that things will turn out badly." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) "Feeling trapped and desperate, countless ordinary Americans will be wracked with feelings of bitterness, resentment, guilt, and frustration as they find it hard to come to grips with the pervasive fallout of a full-scale economic disaster. Over time, those feelings are likely to boil over in rage with disturbing frequency. Increasingly, an evolving sense that people have nothing to lose will turn feelings of shame and hopelessness into a desire for revenge." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) |
| "The poisoning and exploitation of the Aral Sea in the former Soviet Union caused starvation, rampant infectious disease and was an economic disaster. That event prompted the then Soviet president, Mikahil Gorbachev to found the International Green Cross which works for environmental disaster everywhere; he is its president now.
The world's ground water is polluted everywhere, mainly due to pesticides which travel through the ground in ways barely understood by science." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) "In antiquity, malevolent deities were thought responsible for the plagues that wiped out city-states and later caused economic disaster for the Roman Empire. In the Middle Ages, God was believed to be angry with sinful humanity and therefore visited epidemics on them, as he was believed to have done in the biblical stories about the Egypt at the time of Moses. In the mid-19th century, the poor of the vast slums associated with Europe's great cities were blamed for spreading mysterious diseases whose bacterial and viral causes were not yet understood by science." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) |
 "Fertilizers and new hybrid varieties that increased production significantly, generating more than one harvest per year, made it possible to solve the problems of nutrition in some areas of the planet; but those areas were too few, because in the final analysis the Green Revolution was an ecological and economic disaster."- Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.) |
 "One of the latest flags was raised in October 2002 calling GE crops in Canada and the United States an economic disaster in relation to both the food and farming industries.50
What Is Genetic Engineering?
Genetic engineering means the basic DNA molecules are redesigned to create new forms of life. Genes are the DNA blueprint building blocks found in all living things. This new technology enables the manufacturers to break down genetic barriers between species and among humans, animals and plants."- Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) |
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