Tao Te Ching

“Globalization inevitably implies more standardization and therefore a decrease in diversity, which in turn would slow down the rate of social innovations. Another danger of globalization is that excessive interdependence of systems increases the likelihood of collective disasters if one of the subsystems fails”

— René Dubos 1901 – 1982 CE via Think Globally, But Act Locally
Influential scientific environmentalist

from Celebrations of life (1981)