Impact Quote by Jill Stein

“But forecasters often resist considering these out-of-sample problems. When we expand our sample to include events further apart from us in time and space,…

— Nate Silver

We might be more inclined to think about the longer term if we were more aware of what is happening around us. Perhaps daily…

— Prince Charles

The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince…

— James Howard Kunstler

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but…

— Bjorn Lomborg

We really are already seeing the impacts of climate change, of temperatures rising all around the world.

— Declan McKenna

“Therefore, I wish to say it again: The biggest story of the last fifteen years, both nationally and globally, is the growing likelihood that…

— Tyler Cowen

“We produce thirty-year projections of social security deficits and oil prices without realizing that we cannot even predict these for next summer—our cumulative prediction…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the…

— Francesco Guicciardini

If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of…

— Noam Chomsky

We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were…

— Ronald Reagan

Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that…

— Seth Shostak