“Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.” IfsThinkingGivingRealityLastsAsksExampleChangedCoupleClimateDecades Author:James Lovelock
“Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it is today to support a population nearly double its current size, then technology will have to reduce its impact twenty-fold merely to keep the planet at its current levels of environmental impact. For example, to stabilize the climate we may have to reduce real carbon emissions by as much as 80 percent, while simultaneously growing the world economy by an order of magnitude.” IfsWorldMayRealTodayOrderLevelsTechnologySupportEconomyIssuesGrowingEconomicExamplePlanetsActivityPercentIncreaseTwentiesImpactClimateEnvironmentalSizePopulationCurrentsSustainabilityConsumptionCarbonFoldsEmissionsMagnitudeWorld EconomyCarbon EmissionsEnvironmental Impact Book:Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World Source: Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World
“Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.” WorldWellsDifferentNationsInterestExampleCostOrganizationInstitutionsRemainsClimateClimate ChangeInternationalFluStaggeringGet WellHypotheticalSwinePolioWorld HealthConfluenceWorld Health OrganizationSwine Flu Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.” LongDoeTermExampleInnovationClimateLong TermDistrustCompliance Author:Stephen Covey
“Well in the scientific there is virtually no debate over certain things. For example, that we are changing the world. Humans are changing the world very radically, very dramatically. Climate change, which I assume is one of the points you're alluding to, is at the heart of this.” WorldHumansWellsHeartCertainExampleAssumingClimateClimate ChangeDebateChanging The World Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“There is no excuse for a billion dollar industry to have somebody who's pushing papers on an administrative level - which is still very important in terms of getting projects done - it's imbalanced and completely illogical and example of how badly this art form has been rapped... for them niggas to have health care benefits but for themselves to share in no part to that? It's very telling about the climate of the music industry.” Has BeensArtStillsImportantDoneCareFormTermLevelsShareExampleIndustryPaperBenefitsProjectsDollarsClimateExcuseBillionsHealth CarePushingPapersMusic IndustryNo ExcusesIllogicalAdministrative Author:Immortal Technique
“I think that the climate change policy and strategy that we have developed and that we have rolled out thus far is an example of incredibly high-quality work, incredible collaboration by an exceptionally large number of well-informed people.” PeopleThinkingWellsNumbersQualityPolicyExampleStrategyClimateClimate ChangeIncrediblesCollaborationLarge NumbersHigh QualityQuality Work Author:Rachel Notley
“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.” YearsEndsEarthKnownMillionsFiveSawsWorstExamplePlanetsBalancePeriodsTenMassPercentTwentiesClimateClimate ChangeCrapCoastNinetyExtinctionEcosystemsPredatorRippedRecoveringCrocodilesEruptionMegaMass ExtinctionVolcanic Eruptions Author:Annalee Newitz
“You look at the world situation, look at London, Paris, Italy, it is all basically the same as the U.S. Then you look at other places such as India, Bali, with warmer climates, you know the Southern climates, they are very different. I think there is a time and place for everything and in Australia, for example, it is completely the opposite. I don't think we can be designing for that customer per se.” ThinkingKnowsWorldLooksDifferentSituationExampleDesignOppositesIndiaClimateCustomersLondonParisAustraliaSouthernBali Author:Donna Karan
“Packing is important because a lot of times I have to go places where I have to be in four different climates in three weeks. For example, Bosnia, Ireland, Rome. Different parts of Italy. You have to pack and get it down to a science.” ImportantDifferentThreeFourWeekExampleClimateRomeIrelandPacksPackingBosnia Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Only a developed society, for example, only a strong democratic system in modern conditions can create a climate in which any manifestation of terrorism is unacceptable and can also make the state itself stronger.” StatesStrongModernConditionsExampleStrongerDemocraticClimateTerrorismManifestation Author:Vladimir Putin