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Dan Connors
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“There is a massive ‘solutions vacuum’ for our environmental problems.”
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
“The evidence is clear: to save the world’s coral reefs we need to stop climate change.”
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
“The global population growth rate – the change from one year to the next – peaked a long time ago. In the 1960s it was growing at more than 2% per year.17 Since then, this rate has more than halved, to 0.8% in 2022.”
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
“Cynicism is a lack of faith in people; skepticism is a lack of faith in our assumptions. Cynics imagine humanity is awful; skeptics gather information about who they can trust.”
― Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
― Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
“The classic definition of sustainability came out of a landmark report from the United Nations. In 1987, the UN defined sustainable development as ‘meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’.”
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
― Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
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