Louise

“We humans, alone on Earth, are powerful enough to create worlds, and then to destroy them.”
― David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

“The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. In the memories of those who lived through them, the grim days of plague do not stand out like vivid flames, ravenous and inextinguishable, beaconing a troubled sky, but rather like the slow, deliberate progress of some monstrous thing crushing out all upon its path.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“How much hotter will it get? The question may sound scientific, inviting expertise, but the answer is almost entirely human—which is to say, political.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming