“Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing.As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.” WorldMeanLittlesLongTwoCountryRunningPiecesProducePercentTradeBillsSellsBillionsBuyingGoodsAssetsConsumingTreasuryGoods And ServicesTreasury Bill Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved.” PeopleWayNeedsYearsKindPlayProblemEarthRolesImpossibleProduceResourcesAccountsBillionsImprovementBest WayTechnologicalOutlinesRenewable Resources Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.” WorldEnergyNaturalGrowingProducePopulationOilBillionsBurningFuelGasCoalFossilsFossil FuelNatural GasBurning Fossil FuelsBurning Coal Author:John Olver
“Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate citizen, he (and they were all "he's" then) simply couldn't invest a billion dollars in pollution controls to produce a product that was indistinguishable from those of his competitors. His products would be priced out of the market. Passing laws that created a clean, level playing field for whole industries had to be a core focus of the 1970s.” IfsWholeWould BeTodayWantedAmericaLawLevelsFocusFieldsProduceProductsIndustryCitizensResponsibleDollarsCleanChinaBillionsCorePassingPassingsCorporatePollutionCeoCompetitorsPlaying FieldsLevel Playing FieldPollution ControlPassing Laws Author:Denis Hayes
“A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years. It releases as much energy in an instant as our sun will produce over its 10-billion-year lifetime.” YearsLightUniverseEnergyPowerfulSunProduceLifetimeBillionsReleaseInstantOver ItMost PowerfulExplosionsLuminousLight YearsSupernova Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“According to, for example, one academic by the name of Philip Harvey, whose expertise is basically how do we create a New Deal, today. According to his estimate, these jobs could be created for far less than the [Barack] Obama stimulus package, which cost, you know, $700 or $800 billion, something like that, and produced around 3 million jobs - not a lot. According to his estimates, it would cost less to produce two-thirds of 20 million.” KnowsTwoTodayJobsNamesDealsMillionsExampleProduceCostThirdsBillionsBarackAcademicPackagesStimulusExpertisePhilipHarveyNew Deal Author:Jill Stein
“That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes they buy a treasury note, sometimes they set up sovereign wealth funds. They can do all kinds of things. They can buy our companies here. As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.” PeopleIfsWorldKindMeanLittlesLongTwoCountrySometimesWould BeRunningCan DoWealthCompanyPiecesNiceProduceTradeBillsSellsNotesBillionsStuckAll KindsFundGoodsAssetsBeing NiceSovereignTreasuryMattressesTreasury Bill Author:Warren Buffett
“Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.” YearsWellsEndsEnergyAnimalSunProduceOilBillionsBurningSubstanceAtmosphereHeatExtrasGasFarmsCowsPigsCarbonCoalCarbon DioxideMethane Author:Bill Nye
“The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.” WorldYearsHas BeensEarthProduceMaterialsEvolutionTenBillionsEvolveChemicalsFabricRaw Materials Author:John Polkinghorne