Michael Hanlon quotes

“Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.”
-- Michael Hanlon

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“I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that something worrying is going on lies right here in the Arctic.”
-- Michael Hanlon

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“[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”

“There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.”

“Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.”

“Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.”

“Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.”

“Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.”

“We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming”

“Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.”

Source : Bill McKibben (2010). “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet”, p.13, Macmillan

“The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.”

“I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.”