The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than their climate models predicted. — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders. — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply. Eating regularly… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by the time… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy,… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
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… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
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… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
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