Logo
Quote by James Hansen
We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond wh

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. – James Hansen

Other quotes by James Hansen

Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your countrys. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. – because the total emissions are set by the cap. – James Hansen

Category:
car
Author
James Hansen
Read Quote

With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you dont need to mine uranium for the next thousand years. – James Hansen

Category:
Technology
Author
James Hansen
Read Quote

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that. – James Hansen

Category:
Politics
Author
James Hansen
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Environment
category

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. – Edward O. Wilson

Category:
Environment

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. – Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977

Category:
Environment

When the soil disappears, the soul disappears. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Environment

How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?… Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore. – Anonymous Wintu Woman

Category:
Environment

Random Quotes

My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I dont die. Ive done so many movies where Ive died that their first question when I book a job is, So, are you going to die in this? – Michael Ealy

Category:
mom

No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a [child]. – Knights of Pythagoras

Category:
Custodian Thanks

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. – William Shenstone

Category:
Poetry

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved. – Goran Persson

Category:
Peace