“Nearly any creative move the intelligencia and magicalia can arrange can be easily countermanded by opposing forces deploying cash assets. And this is true on nearly any scale you can imagine. So in order to succeed, you’re going to have to actually come up with something more powerful than money and politics. And if you want a chance at this, you’d better do it fast, because as the health of your planet fails due to constant assault, your window of opportunity is going with it, and the forces you oppose are aggressively consolidating their dominance and stranglehold on planetary and socioeconomic resources.”

— an anonymous informant