Brit Marling Quotes

I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.

On one hand, I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

In former times humans had fear of the future. Today the future must have fear of humans.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.

Undoubtedly we will go on to Mars in due course, provided we don't blow ourselves up with our stupidities in the short run. That's a possibility, too.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.

You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

If the world does not change course, we risk self-destruction.

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

Do you think we're going to hit a tipping point and the world's going to end?

In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under threat. This fact should compel everyone to face a basic moral consideration; from now on, it is only through a conscious choice and then deliberate policy that humanity will survive.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.