Ramez Naam

In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

— Ramez Naam

People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

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The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.

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Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.

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“to have the right future, we need to lay down the right past, for that future to build on.”

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We don't have good global policies in place for climate.

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Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

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If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a…

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“But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are…

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Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a…

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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire…

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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

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If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person…

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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it…

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Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.

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I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic…

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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no…

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Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a…

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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing.…

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You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look…

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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're…

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Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping…

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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for…

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“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the…

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“Organic farming is environmentally friendlier to every acre of land. But it requires _more_ acres. The trade-off is a harsh one. Would…

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“We must all act within the choices we are given.”

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Just like you could dump oil into the Cuyahoga in the 60s and let someone else foot the bill, today you can…

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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to…

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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is…

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Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with…

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In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a…

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Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And…

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We know the climate is changing. We don't know if it will be really bad or nearly apocalyptic. Both are within the…

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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.

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New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising…

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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says…

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By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of…

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Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

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