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“On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.”

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Ramez Naam is a seasoned manager with an unknown birth and death date. more

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“I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I'd imagined.”

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“Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.”

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“Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.”

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“International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension of the (increasingly conflicting) values and interests of member states.”

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