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“However, there is no global right price that all governments can agree on across cultures and local economies, despite the economic model saying this is the ideal. Neither is there one fair model for sharing emission rights among countries. Blaming politicians for these shortcomings doesn’t bring much progress.”
― Per Espen Stoknes, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action

“To communicate the facts to the public, the same social experiment has been repeated over and over: Simply give people the information, and then wait and see if the facts trickling into their mind will convince them to change their behavior. The outcome has been consistently underwhelming.”
― Per Espen Stoknes, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action

“Do we not see that noble cities are erected by the people and destroyed by the princes? That a state grows rich by the industry of its citizens and is plundered by the rapacity of its rulers? That good laws are enacted by representatives of the people and violated by kings? That the commons love peace and the monarchs foment war?”
― Johan Norberg, Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations

“Hard times create strongmen, and strongmen create even harder times.”
― Johan Norberg, Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations