Zitat des Tages von Kim Stanley Robinson:
Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value.
We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.