Ramez Naam

People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

— Ramez Naam

Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

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Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

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“We must all act within the choices we are given.”

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“to have the right future, we need to lay down the right past, for that future to build on.”

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Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.

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The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.

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In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a…

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Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with…

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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

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Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And…

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We know the climate is changing. We don't know if it will be really bad or nearly apocalyptic. Both are within the…

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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it…

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Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.

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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked…

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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do…

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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,'…

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I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on…

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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer…

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The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc.…

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We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the…

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I support GMOs. And we should label them. We should label them because that is the very best thing we can do…

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“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the…

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“Organic farming is environmentally friendlier to every acre of land. But it requires _more_ acres. The trade-off is a harsh one. Would…

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We don't have good global policies in place for climate.

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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

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If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person…

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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire…

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“But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are…

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Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a…

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If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a…

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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is…

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Just like you could dump oil into the Cuyahoga in the 60s and let someone else foot the bill, today you can…

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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to…

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If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice…

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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical…

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Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

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“When you suffer, Ananda had told him, When you rage. When you weep. When you crave. That is when you must still…

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