“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
“With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?” ProblemNaturalWasteBeatsEvidenceResourcesClimateClimate ChangeHarmDisasterInstanceChainsToxicNatural ResourcesNatural DisasterFood ChainPerpetuatingIrreparableToxic WasteIrreparable Harm Author:Yehuda Berg
“The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources.” BodyExistenceStruggleEvidenceResourcesCompetitionEnvironmentalComplexityOrganismsDarwinismStruggle For Existence Author:Richard Lewontin
“Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a spirit of encroachment and aggression, by humiliations which nourish their pride, or by concessions that extend their resources and power.” HumansSpiritFoundNationsHuman NaturePrideEvidenceResourcesAggressionHumiliationConcessionsEncroachment Book:James Madison's Source: James Madison's
“It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business: You need an agent and manager so you can get a job to get resources, but you can't get an agent and a manager unless people see your work.” PeopleIfsNeedsHardJobsActingSupportEvidenceResourcesOrganizationProfitAgentsManagersGet MoneyNon Profit Author:Sonja Sohn
“This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.” IfsWantGivenHalfSupportBuildingMaterialsProjectsEvidenceResourcesMethodAvailableMilesStatisticsDictatorshipScientific Evidence Author:Jacque Fresco
“There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.” ShowsBeliefDealsBuildingEvidenceResourcesCriticismWestChinaFavorsChineseInfrastructure Author:George Ayittey
“We have over the years proven again and again that every piece of evidence used to convict me has been false. The FBI with its unlimited resources has done everything it possibly can to keep me in prison.” YearsHas BeensDoneUsedPiecesEvidenceResourcesPrisonAgain And AgainProvenUnlimitedFbiConvicts Author:Leonard Peltier
“Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.” MindFeelingsFormCertainIndividualSadnessModernOffersProveEvidenceResourcesAffectionWideAdvertisingEnterpriseAnimatedIngenuityDegradationBeing MyselfSaddenedGullibilityImpudence Book:A Set of Six Source: A Set of Six