“Climate change poses threats that are probabilistic, multiple, indirect, often invisible, and unbounded in space and time. Fully grasping these threats requires scientific understanding and technical skills that are often in short supply. Moreover, climate change can be seen as presenting us with the largest collective action problem that humanity has ever faced, one that has both intra- and inter-generational dimensions. Evolution did not design us to deal with such problems, and we have not designed political institutions that are conducive to solving them.”
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
“Voluntary simplicity is at once joyous and altruistic. Joyous because it is not permanently plagued by the hunger for “more”; altruistic because it does not encourage the disproportionate concentration of resources in the hands of a few, resources which—were they to be spread evenly—would significantly improve the lives of those deprived of basic needs.”
― Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
― Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
“Our CO2 emissions, caused by such apparently innocent actions as driving to the farmer’s market or the recycling center, will affect the lives of people in the next millennium.”
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
“Savoring good prose is not just a more effective way to develop a writerly ear than obeying a set of commandments; it’s a more inviting one.”
― The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
― The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
“We also face psychological obstacles in responding to climate change. Evolution built us to respond to rapid movements of middle-sized objects, not to the slow buildup of insensible gases in the atmosphere. Most of us respond dramatically to what we sense, not to what we think. As a result, even those of us who are concerned about climate change find it difficult to feel its urgency and to act decisively.”
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
― Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future
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