When a child learns to walk and falls down 50 times, he never thinks to himself: 'Maybe this isn't for me ?'. Where did you learn to quit ?
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -Terry Pratchett.
If kindness and comfort are, as I suspect, the results of an energy surplus, then, as the supply contracts, we could be expected to start fighting once again like cats in a sack. -George Monbiot