Barbara Kingsolver Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. April 8, 1955
Birthday: April 8
We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as it produces, and around the profligate wastefulness of the wars and campaigns required to defend such consumption. In recent years we have defined our national interest largely in terms of the oil fields and pipelines we need to procure fuel.
source: Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.33, Faber & Faber
topic: War, Years, Oil, Oil Field, Wastefulness, National Interests
