We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
The change in economic values created by the new markets for global public goods will reorient our global economy and under the right conditions… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
We need to support our future instead of undermining human survival. Let's do it. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
We need a transformation of the world economy and of how we use and share the Earth's resources. We are running out of time.… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Even if we planted a tree on every square yard available in the planet by the end of the century we would only capture… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
The sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from the sun's… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
We have to remove the CO2 that the industrial economy has already emitted, which otherwise will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
