“We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous.” KnowsFirstsEndsNationsNaturalSeaDangerousCivilizationPercentVoteResponseDenyTraumaReactionsRealizationDenialUncertaintyIslandsRising Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
“We have used the majority of our carbon budget and we are already at dangerous levels of CO2 concentrations, about 400 parts per million. The levels were 250 before industrialization. So the problem is what we have done already and, therefore, what must be undone.” DoneProblemUsedLevelsMillionsDangerousMajorityBudgetsConcentrationCarbonUndoneCo2Industrialization Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
“Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of the oceans kills tiny crustaceans, such as krill, that are the basis of the pyramid of life on the planet as we know it.” KnowsWorldDangerousPlanetsOceanSolutionsBasesIncreaseTinyChanging The WorldProposePyramidsCo2Geoengineering Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
