“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsLooksGovernmentAsksEnergyGrowthNaturalCitiesWonderRecordsCenturyEvidenceResourcesClimatePopulationObviousDecadesPanicFlood21st CenturyThreatenedNatural ResourcesDroughtWorld PopulationConfluence Author:Thomas Friedman
“Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.” HumansHappensCareFeltEvidenceDespiteOnenessConsiderationFloodHurricanesEarthquakesKinshipTornadoesEruptionVolcanic Eruptions Author:Alan Lightman
“Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!” SoulNightEnergyMemoriesRegretEvidenceSubstanceRisingResolveFloodRollingNumbManlyFadingWitheredMoodyDauntlessWithered Leaves Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales
“I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.” WorldCharacterStoriesHumanityFoundReligiousAnimalHeroEvidenceMythSavedFloodCollectorsApocalypticArk Author:Russell Crowe
“The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.” IfsHas BeensStillsLinesFailingEventsHappeningsEvidenceScientistClimateExtremesDecadesWeatherFloodSevereFrequencyDroughtPredictingExtreme Weather Author:David Suzuki
“The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The variation we are seeing in temperature or rainfall is double the rate of the average. That suggests that we are going to have more droughts, we are going to have more floods, we are going to have more sea surges and we are going to have more storms. These are the sort of changes that are going to affect us in quite a short timescale” GovernmentSeeingSeaHappeningsEvidenceHarderClimateRateClimate ChangeAverageStormCombatFloodTemperatureVariationDroughtTacklingRainfallUnequivocal Author:John Beddington