The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization. — Graciela Chichilnisky Change Copy Share Image
The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge. — Graciela Chichilnisky 21st century Copy Share Image
Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction. — Graciela Chichilnisky Action Copy Share Image
Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers. — Graciela Chichilnisky Answers Copy Share Image
Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes. — Graciela Chichilnisky Climate Copy Share Image
We need to support our future instead of undermining human survival. Let's do it. — Graciela Chichilnisky Future 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 Earth Copy Share Image
The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to… — Graciela Chichilnisky Accepting 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… — Graciela Chichilnisky Atmosphere 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… — Graciela Chichilnisky Climate 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… — Graciela Chichilnisky Basic needs 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… — Graciela Chichilnisky Change Copy Share Image
CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean… — Graciela Chichilnisky Air 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… — Graciela Chichilnisky Atmosphere Copy Share Image
Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting… — Graciela Chichilnisky Bases 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… — Graciela Chichilnisky Available Copy Share Image
Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US. — Graciela Chichilnisky Change Copy Share Image
After denial comes anger and finally, acceptance. — Graciela Chichilnisky Acceptance Copy Share Image
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by… — Graciela Chichilnisky Action Copy Share Image
If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat. — Graciela Chichilnisky Change Copy Share Image
While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations. — Graciela Chichilnisky Certainty Copy Share Image
Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it… — Graciela Chichilnisky Monsters Copy Share Image
The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive. — Graciela Chichilnisky Capitalism Copy Share Image
Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction. — Graciela Chichilnisky Carbon Copy Share Image
Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels. — Graciela Chichilnisky Change Copy Share Image
To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under… — Graciela Chichilnisky Air 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… — Graciela Chichilnisky Areas Copy Share Image
Changing an economic system that is bent on uncontrolled and poorly measured economic growth and depends on fossil energy for its main… — Graciela Chichilnisky Bent Copy Share Image
The first reaction to trauma is denial, then comes anger and finally, acceptance. I think the US is still between denial and… — Graciela Chichilnisky Acceptance Copy Share Image
Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often… — Graciela Chichilnisky Advantage Copy Share Image
We have used the majority of our carbon budget and we are already at dangerous levels of CO2 concentrations, about 400 parts… — Graciela Chichilnisky Budgets Copy Share Image
We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and… — Graciela Chichilnisky Civilization Copy Share Image
Trees and clean energy [are] the long-run solution but we have no time to wait for the long run. We need a… — Graciela Chichilnisky Clean Copy Share Image
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