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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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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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Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than COâ‚‚ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about…
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I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.
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The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in…
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The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an…
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The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes…
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Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from…
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