“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
“The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change.” ClearRecordsImpactClimateClimate ChangeStormFloodingRainfall Author:Nicholas Stern
“The record-breaking extreme weather events causing chaos across the globe should be a wake-up call. The transition to a low-carbon economy will be much more painful if we wait until there is a climate crisis before recognising that more than half of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to remain in the ground.” IfsWorldShouldWaitingBusinessHalfEconomyRecordsEventsLowsWake UpCrisisClimateChaosPainfulExtremesWeatherFuelTransitionReservesGlobesCarbonFossilsFossil FuelWake Up CallExtreme WeatherRecords Breaking Author:Christiana Figueres
“We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.” InspirationalResultsCompanySuccessfulRecordsEconomicBuiltManagementClimateTransitionOperating SystemsEconomic Climate Author:Jack Welch
“For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material like the mixtape. Now we would call it "collaborative filtering" or something technical, but the impulse is the same - gather fragments, make something new. That is how you will bypass the climate-change skeptics: render them totally obsolete.” CultureRecordsMaterialsConceptsClimateClimate ChangeCloudsObsessionImpulseSomething NewPrimitiveFragmentsCollectingSkepticObsoleteDjsBypassMixtapes Author:DJ Spooky
“It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts.” PeopleYearsHas BeensFactsHomeMillionsRecordsDyingClimateSevenClimate ChangeCaliforniaFuelPollutionCatastropheFossilsFossil FuelDroughtBurnt Out Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Whether or not punk is the flavor of the month is not important for us. Bad Religion has been popular through many different climates. When heavy metal was popular, when new wave was popular, Bad Religion was still there underneath the mainstream selling more and more records.” Has BeensStillsImportantDifferentRecordsMonthsClimateWaveHeavySellingMetalsMainstreamPunkFlavorHeavy MetalFlavor Of The MonthSelling More Author:Greg Graffin