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“Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.”
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William H. Calvin
Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change”, p.90, William H. Calvin
#Uplifting Quotes
#Moving Quotes
#Years Quotes
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“Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.”
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William H. Calvin
Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.128, William H. Calvin
#Fuel Quotes
#Care Quotes
#Fossils Quotes
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“The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.”
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William H. Calvin
Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.165, William H. Calvin
#Real Quotes
#Political Quotes
#Focus Quotes
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“Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.”
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William H. Calvin
Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.137, William H. Calvin
#Growth Quotes
#Climate Quotes
#Stopping Quotes
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“Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.”
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William H. Calvin
Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.173, William H. Calvin
#Years Quotes
#Climate Quotes
#Century Quotes
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“It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.”
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William H. Calvin
Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.177, William H. Calvin
#Cat Quotes
#Leader Quotes
#Political Quotes
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“Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.”
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William H. Calvin
Source : William H. Calvin (2008). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.225, University of Chicago Press
#Years Quotes
#Growth Quotes
#Atmosphere Quotes
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“Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.”
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William H. Calvin
#Country Quotes
#Jobs Quotes
#Technology Quotes
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“Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.”
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William H. Calvin
#People Quotes
#Underwater Quotes
#Fever Quotes
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“If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.”
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William H. Calvin
Source : William H. Calvin (2008). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.225, University of Chicago Press
#Opportunity Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Missing Quotes
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“Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.”
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William H. Calvin
#Procrastination Quotes
#Years Quotes
#Credit Quotes
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“Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.”
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William H. Calvin
#Insecurity Quotes
#Risk Quotes
#World Quotes
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“Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather than 2040, we get another 2° of fever rather than 3° - and that's a big difference.”
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William H. Calvin
Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.142, William H. Calvin
#Past Quotes
#Differences Quotes
#Fever Quotes
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“Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.”
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William H. Calvin
Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.31, William H. Calvin
#Addiction Quotes
#Fossils Quotes
#Denial Quotes
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“Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.”
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William H. Calvin
Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.142, William H. Calvin
#Civilization Quotes
#Way Quotes
#Climate Quotes
