Alok Jha > Quotes

“Someday we might look back with a curious nostalgia at the days when profligate homeowners wastefully sprayed their lawns with liquid gold to make the grass grow, just so they could then burn black gold to cut it down on the weekends.”
― Alok Jha, 50 Ways the World Is Going to End: The Biggest Threats to the Planet

“Investing in poverty reduction and healthcare in developing countries are the keys to managing pandemics in the long term,” said McKibbin. “For now, we will have to live with a world where a relatively minor flu outbreak in Mexico City can send markets reeling in Tokyo.”
― Alok Jha, The Doomsday Handbook

“Life, its processes and structures, occur in its solution. Every living thing, then, is simply a different inflection of water; a deviation of a few per cent from purity.”
― Alok Jha, The Water Book

“The US authorities recommend keeping three weeks’ food and water stockpiled in case of a pandemic: most cities around the world have only a few days’ worth of food.”
― Alok Jha, The Doomsday Handbook