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It is part of the human experience that we are constantly gripping a good fellow by the shoulders and wishing him well, taking comfort from the notion that we will hear word of him soon enough.
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.”
― Essential Thinkers - Socrates
― Essential Thinkers - Socrates
“Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.”
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“For many people who have been comfortable until now, it is seemingly impossible to accept that anything so disruptive as climate change is possible. Either it’s a hoax or things will somehow continue to be fine. [It’s a profound kind of entitlement to believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, that we can go on living as we are.]”
― All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
― All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
“We need to have a whole cultural shift, where it becomes our culture to take care of the Earth, and in order to make this shift, we need storytelling about how the Earth takes care of us and how we can take care of her.”
― All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
― All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
“A lot of these viruses, a lot of these pathogens that come out of wildlife into domestic animals or people, have existed in wild animals for a very long time,” he said. They don’t necessarily cause any disease. They have coevolved with their natural hosts over millions of years. They have reached some sort of accommodation, replicating slowly but steadily, passing unobtrusively through the host population, enjoying long-term security—and eschewing short-term success in the form of maximal replication within each host individual. It’s a strategy that works. But when we humans disturb the accommodation—when we encroach upon the host populations, hunting them for meat, dragging or pushing them out of their ecosystems, disrupting or destroying those ecosystems—our action increases the level of risk. “It increases the opportunity for these pathogens to jump from their natural host into a new host,” he said. The new host might be any animal (the horse in Australia, the palm civet in China) but often it’s humans, because we are present so intrusively and abundantly. We offer a wealth of opportunity.”
― Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
― Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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