Climate Quotes by Annalee Newitz

9 Climate quotes by Annalee Newitz

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Annalee Newitz delivers nine concise thoughts on climate, each infused with her speculative storytelling flair. This brief set provides a fresh, imaginative angle for readers exploring her perspective.

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The fact that we have been able to perturb the carbon cycle with our industrial revolution is evidence of how vulnerable we…

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It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world.…

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Some time ago we discovered the carbon cycle - a long-term set of chemical reactions that govern climates based on how much…

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think we're still stuck in that agricultural mindset, where we imagine that we can shape the Earth. Sure, we can do that.…

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Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we…

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The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that…

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There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at…

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My first goal would be to reduce the perturbation in the carbon cycle. That would mean using carbon neutral sources of energy,…

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If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe…

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“She wasn’t sure which motivation made better fuel for innovation: naïve but ethical beliefs, or the need to survive.”

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Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die…

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Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal…

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“It didn’t just boost your concentration. It made you enjoy work. You couldn’t wait to get back to the keyboard, the breadboard, the gesture…

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Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend…

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In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into…

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“ For all the robots who question their programming. ”

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Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and culturally -…

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I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can…

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The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the…

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In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim…

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“As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me: You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that of…

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“Plus, it was made by Zaxy, the company behind Smartifex, Brillicent, and other popular work enhancement drugs.”

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That said, a lot of people buy products with "green" in the brand name, but make no attempt to understand what it would really…

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“Every master loves to fuck a slave. It is a law of nature, or maybe culture.”

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