Climate Quotes by Gwynne Dyer

The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well under stress.…

— Gwynne Dyer

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

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There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It…

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War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of…

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The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels…

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The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly…

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The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster…

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But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by the time…

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Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy,…

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For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although…

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Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think…

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Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Do the right thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as it seems, because…

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“What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.”

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Now, for the moment, we are safe. The only kind of international violence that worries most people in the developed countries is terrorism: from…

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While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic…

— Gwynne Dyer