Francesca Cassinelli

“En la actualidad, son cada vez menos los que defienden o niegan los hechos ocurridos durante la dictadura. Sin embargo, nuestra historia también se traduce en que nuestro estándar sea uno especialmente elevado. Si el ejemplo que pensamos al escuchar la frase «violación a los derechos humanos» es el de las atrocidades cometidas durante la dictadura, cualquier cosa que no sea así de grave podría parecer irrelevante.”
― Catalina Fernández Carter, Los límites de la fuerza: Mitos y verdades sobre derechos humanos

“On the other hand, the climate record shows that it would be a mistake to assume that change, when it comes, will come gradually. Perovich offered a comparison that he had heard from a glaciologist friend. The friend likened the climate system to a rowboat: “You can tip and then you’ll just go back. You can tip it and just go back. And then you tip it and you get to the other stable state, which is upside down.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

“I’ve started to interact with geologists around the world, scientists who’ve dedicated their lives to studying glaciers and ice fields, and it’s tough for all of us to realize that we’re studying a system in decline, the demise of the cryosphere, that frozen part of the world.”
― Michio Kaku, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020

“The daily papers talk of everything except the daily,” he complained. “What’s really going on, what we’re experiencing, the rest, all the rest, where is it?” That’s his deeper question: What about everything else?”
― Rob Walker, The Art of Noticing for Writers: From The Art of Noticing