Civilisation Quote by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Download Open image “What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation!” — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilisation Differences Humans World
The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [...] But a couple… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
We [human beings] are two-legged omnivorous animals, and this means that we have many ecological niches, regarding the possible places where we can live.… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
Remember, the difference between the world frozen over, in an ice ball, and the warming period we're in now is just 6 degrees centigrade.… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The reality is that no country's actions alone will create the impact required to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius - we… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other. — Piers Corbyn Copy Share Image
Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference? — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange. This number,… — Craig F. Bohren Copy Share Image
When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions… — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great… — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
In a sense the U.S. is climate illiterate. If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change even in… — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image