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“Ironically, one of the best proofs that information does not change people’s attitudes is that science communicators continue to ignore the extensive research evidence that shows that information does not change people’s attitudes.”
― Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
― Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
“we are not wired to make decisions about barely perceptible threats that gradually accelerate over time. We’re not so different from the proverbial frog that boils to death in a pot of slowly warming water.”
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
“The warming of the planet is not waiting for consensus-building.”
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
“Globally, about 145 million people live three feet or less above the current sea level. As the waters rise, millions of these people will be displaced, many of them in poor countries, creating generations of climate refugees that will make today’s Syrian war refugee crisis look like a high school drama production.”
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
“Most of the water that will drown Miami and New York and Venice and other coastal cities will come from two places: Antarctica and Greenland. Often you hear about the disappearance of the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro or the glaciers in Patagonia, but in the context of drowning cities, land-based glaciers won’t contribute much. What really matters is what happens on the two big blocks of ice at either end of the Earth.”
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
― The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Binh An’s 2025 Year in Books
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