William H. Calvin Quotes
- Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they…
- Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
- Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather…
- Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.
- Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't…
- If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable…
- Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a…
- Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.
- Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.
- It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses…
- Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.
- Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.
- The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.
- Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.
- Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.