John Holdren Quotes

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• The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset.
• A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system…
• There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could…
• A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to…
• In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters.…
• The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares…
• The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive…
• Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may…
• Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems…
• If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise…
• A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.
• Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to…
• The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more…
• It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if…
• Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally, not…
• I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the…
• Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing…
• People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.
• The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it.
• Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

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