Ken Caldeira - If you're talking about mugging little old ladies, you don't say, 'What's o

If you're talking about mugging little old ladies, you don't say, 'What's our target for the rate of mugging little old ladies?' You say, 'Mugging little old ladies is bad, and we're going to try to eliminate it.' You recognize you might not be a hundred percent successful, but your goal is to eliminate the mugging of little old ladies. And I think we need to eventually come around to looking at carbon dioxide emissions the same way.

- Ken Caldeira

topic: Successful, Thinking, Talking, Carbon Dioxide Emissions