“Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.” MayEnergyDesignBecomingTaxesGlobal WarmingUrbanCarbonCatastrophePreventingRenewable EnergyDrasticUrban DesignCarbon Tax Book:Hacking the Earth Source: Hacking the Earth
“But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.” PeopleIfsWorldWantBelieveHumansUsePoliticalFightingEvilBeliefEnergySocialHalfMillionsGrowingMankindTerribleActivismGet UpHuman LifeCatastropheInactionInertiaChange For The BetterMusterSocial Evils Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
“Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.” TryingHumansArtEnergyNaturalLossDealsEnvironmentSurvivalDisasterGet AwayCatastropheNatural Disaster Book:Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility
“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.” MenFoundEnergyCenturyIgnoranceHeroTerribleIntellectualDiscoveryAll ThingsFundamentalsTragicDaringCatastropheFifthFuriousTragic Hero Author:Robert Fagles
“I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and catastrophes which might result for mankind from an irresponsible attitude. In this field my wish is for Iran to put all her efforts towards the peaceful use of atomic energy. We shall continue to co-operate with all the nations of the world to attain this end in the interests of human society.” WorldHumansEndsUseMightEnergyNationsWishInterestRealizingResultsEffortPayAttentionAttitudeMankindDangerFieldsParticularNuclearPeacefulIranCatastropheIrresponsibleHuman SocietyMy WishNuclear EnergyAtomic Energy Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi