Quotes About Inactions

In the littered field of discredited self-congratulatory chauvinisms, there is only one that seems to hold up, one sense in which we are special: Due to our own actions or inactions, and the misuse of our technology, we live at an extraordinary moment, for the Earth at least—the first time that a species has become able to wipe itself out.

You say we don't know the consequences of actions. But we don't know the consequences of inactions either, and inactions are actions.