“As James Lovelock writes, ‘Mother Earth’ is now an old lady in her sixties, no longer as resilient as she once was. With our conscious actions, we are now measurably shortening her lifespan.”
― Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
― Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
“A new world With five degrees of global warming, an entirely new planet is coming into being-one largely unrecognisable from the Earth we know today. The”
― Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
― Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
“Because of its sheer size and population, China is on a collision course with the planet. The country's oil use has doubled in the last ten years, and if the Chinese by 2030 use oil at the same rate as Americans do now, China will need 100 million barrels of oil a day. However, current world production is only around 80 million barrels per day, and is unlikely to rise much further before the ‘peak oil’ point is reached. There simply isn't enough oil in the ground to bring Chinese consumption up to Western levels-the global resource buffer is already being hit.”
― Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
― Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
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