" One of the things we've learned in the past 5 years is that we can have seemingly powerful institutions that turn out to be extremely vulnerable and brittle: our banks in the financial collapse were too big to fail. Our energy system and our agricultural system are just as top-heavy and just as vulnerable. What that means is not, as with the banks, that we should bail them out because they're too big to fail. It means that anything that's too big to fail is too big, and we need to build down this system, spread it out, make it more stable. "

― Bill McKibben