"there’s a dark synergy between fragmentation and global warming, just as there is between global warming and ocean acidification, and between global "there’s a dark synergy between fragmentation and global warming, just as there is between global warming and ocean acidification, and between global warming and invasive species, and between invasive species and fragmentation."
"all non-Africans, from the New Guineans to the French to the Han Chinese, carry somewhere between one and four percent Neanderthal DNA"
"Certainly humans can be destructive and shortsighted; they can also be forward-thinking and altruistic."...more
"We’ve seen how some people have fought the facts about the hazards of tobacco, acid rain, ozone depletion, secondhand smoke, and global warming. Thei"We’ve seen how some people have fought the facts about the hazards of tobacco, acid rain, ozone depletion, secondhand smoke, and global warming. Their denials seemed plausible, at least to some, because they involved matters that were still under scientific investigation, where many of the details were uncertain even if the big picture was becoming clear. But the construction of a revisionist history of DDT gives the game away, because it came so long after the science was settled, far too long to argue that scientists had not come to agreement, that there was still a real scientific debate. The game here, as before, was to defend an extreme free market ideology. But in this case, they didn’t just deny the facts of science.They denied the facts of history."...more
If you want an anxiety attack and feel like you are a burden to the world, because you are not hugging trees right now, read this book As a solution toIf you want an anxiety attack and feel like you are a burden to the world, because you are not hugging trees right now, read this book As a solution to the problem of climate change: 1. Hate rich people who invest in companies linked to exploiting fossil fuels, 95% of the world's energy base 2. Fight for humanity comeback to consume like the Neolithic age 3. Venerate Greta Thumberg, and vote for the parties that empower the people (Cough... LEFT... cough.....) 4. Organize the community and invade the oil companies with a bunch of Indians, keep the carbon in the ground, and since the power will be with the people and not with old Scrooge, everything will be fine. 5. Forget about the risks, volatility and advances that oil has brought to humanity
The author really has a point, when starts writing about the real world, communities that suffer from the exploitation of natural resources next to their homes, pollution and the imposition of industry wishes protected by the government are the biggest problem, and what is the solution? Investing in new energy generation alternatives and improove what is wrong in the system, and what is it? Free market baby :)
PS: try to publish this book in countries run by people like Putin or Kim Jong-un, who are not so fond of capitalism and the free world, except for the part that suits them...more
"For more than twenty years, I noted, the national conversation about climate change has been polarized between those who deny it and those who exagge"For more than twenty years, I noted, the national conversation about climate change has been polarized between those who deny it and those who exaggerate it."
Definitely a slap on the face to understand that we cannot turn environmentalism into a religion! No, it's not your fault that you're alive and producing something n' using natural resources to survive, just use responsibly and don't be a hypocritical asshole....more
Congratulations Dr. Ehrlich, you were wrong in all your predictions, and contributed a lot to the hatred among humanity by encouraging only the rich tCongratulations Dr. Ehrlich, you were wrong in all your predictions, and contributed a lot to the hatred among humanity by encouraging only the rich to procreate and the poor to be sterilized...more
“We live our comforable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to “We live our comforable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives.” ― Sir David Attenborough...more
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