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Gwynne Dyer has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at…
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As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and…
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The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a…
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The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well…
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But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by…
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The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of…
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While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of…
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There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through…
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The first and most important impact of climate change on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply.…
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Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I…
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Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in…
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It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.
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Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that…
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
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The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how…
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Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live…
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I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means…
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The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.
— Denis Hayes
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If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may…
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face…
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Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.
— James Hansen
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Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may…
— Sigourney Weaver
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Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and…
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