7 Quotes by Chris Martenson

The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam.Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thin-air 'money' require no effort and are entirely ephemeral. But if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.

there are two ways that people decide to change: by insight, and by pain

Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.And why is that important? Because the banking system needs ever more loans in order to survive.

In that gap between one’s thoughts and one’s actions is where anxiety and fear live and breed.

For every one calorie of food you eat, ten calories of (rapidly depleting) fossil fuels are stealthily expended in producing it.

Add up all the Three Es and you see we have: 1.an economy that must expand, connected to 2.an energy system that cannot expand, all wrapped up in 3.an environment that is both being depleted of resources and saturated with pollutants. The inescapable conclusion to all this? Things are going to change. Big time.

preparing before a crisis hits is responsible and selfless, but trying to accumulate necessary items during a crisis is an act of hoarding