Leeanne G’s Reviews > Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning > Status Update
Leeanne G
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“We have a short period - a very short period - in which to prevent the planet from starting to shake us off…Two degrees, because it has been widely recognized by climate scientists as the critical threshold, has sometimes been characterized as a ‘safe’ level of warming. As I hope this account has shown, it is merely less dangerous than what lies beyond.”
— Oct 24, 2023 07:15PM
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Leeanne ’s Previous Updates
Leeanne G
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“Accepting that we no longer possess the powers of angels or of devils, that the world no longer exists for our delectation, demands that we do something few people in the rich world have done for many years: recognize that progress now depends upon the exercise of fewer opportunities.”
— Dec 29, 2023 06:54AM
Leeanne G
is on page 170 of 304
“Confronted with the twin disasters of climate change and an impending oil peak, it is hard to see how anyone could justify the assertion that the need to drive a car which can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 4.5 seconds…overrides the Ethiopians’ need to avoid recurrent famines…”.
— Dec 23, 2023 08:31AM
Leeanne G
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Honestly, most of the information in chapter 6 was beyond my comprehension. But I have learned to be careful about which numbers to trust.
— Dec 18, 2023 06:37PM
Leeanne G
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“There are two reasons why cheating is so common in the nuclear industry. The first is that it is much cheaper to handle radioactive materials badly than to handle them well. The second is that the nuclear operators have the perfect excuse - security - for withholding inconvenient facts from the public.”
— Dec 17, 2023 07:11PM
Leeanne G
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“We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.”
— Nov 27, 2023 06:12PM
Leeanne G
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We ALL have to make the necessary sacrifices if we’re going to save our planet. Not just some, ALL!
— Nov 19, 2023 06:39PM
Leeanne G
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“As people in the rich countries…begin to wake up to what the science is saying, climate-change denial will look as stupid as Holocaust denial, or the insistence that AIDS can be cured with beetroot. But our response will be to demand that the government acts, while hoping that it doesn’t. We will wish our governments to pretend to act.” - George Monbiot
— Nov 08, 2023 06:25PM
