Quotes about "Environmental & Nature"

On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. ”

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia. ”

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species. ”

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life. ”

Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity's control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there's nothing we can do about that. ”

By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the future may bring, science fiction can do what Dickens and Sinclair did: make real the consequences of social injustice or human folly. ”

Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind. ”

I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at. ”

Renaming a class at one level is really easy; you just change the name. But how do you change all the references to that class and all the imports? ”

As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good. ”