Ramez Naam

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

— Ramez Naam

There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do…

— Ramez Naam

There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor,…

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The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better.

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“We think of ourselves as individuals, but all that we have accomplished, and all that we will accomplish, is the result of…

— Ramez Naam

'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with…

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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen.…

— Ramez Naam

Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical…

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

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In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up…

— Ramez Naam

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

— Ramez Naam

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

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When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for…

— Ramez Naam

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

— Ramez Naam

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love…

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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…

— Ramez Naam

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

— Ramez Naam

I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on…

— Ramez Naam

“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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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production…

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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer…

— Ramez Naam

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

— Ramez Naam

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

— Ramez Naam