Tyler Willis

“The fear of bad outcomes motivates both climate activists and their foes, but the precise details don’t matter. Both sides see themselves as averting a future that they don’t like more than creating one that they do.”
― Oliver Morton, The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

“there is a second lesson from Grübler’s studies of past energy transitions to be confronted. They have, in the main, been driven not by the availability of new ways of providing energy, but by new ways of using it: transitions are pulled by demand, not pushed by supply.”
― Oliver Morton, The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

“How can he remember well his ignorance—which his growth requires—who has so often to use his knowledge?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods