In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.
Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.
Every industrial revolution brings along a learning revolution.
I'm not a part of the political industrial complex.
To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.
I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.
For our part, Africa will make a significant contribution to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
My government has taken significant measures to enable the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in our country.
It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.
