Quotes About Environment

Kim Stanley Robinson

Crap in the Cloud. A novel of celestial sewage.

He turned off the phone, returned it to the safe. He checked the particulate meter on the wall: 1300 ppm. This for fine particulates, 25 nanometers and smaller. He went out onto the street again, staying in the shade of buildings. Everyone was doing that; no one stood in the sun now. Gray air lay on the town like smoke. It was too hot to have a smell, there was just a scorched sensation, a smell like heat itself, like flame.

Humans are burning about 40 gigatons (a gigaton is a billion tons) of fossil carbon per year. Scientists have calculated that we can burn about 500 more gigatons of fossil carbon before we push the average global temperature over 2 degrees Celsius higher than it was when the industrial revolution began; this is as high as we can push it, they calculate, before really dangerous effects will follow for most of Earth's bioregions, meaning also food production for people.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?

Who were these people who could live so placidly while the world fell into an acute global environmental crisis? Experts at denial. Experts at filtering their information. Many of those walking by went to church on Sundays, believed in God, voted Republican, spent their time shopping and watching TV. Obviously nice people. The world was doomed.

no extinctions from this point onward are inevitable (this has always been true, however) 19,340

History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously its not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention to certain details, like for instance your planet.

If we avoid a mass extinction event in the next 20 years, that's a utopian future.

So if you combined this thing with carbon taxes, you would get taxed if you burn carbon, but paid if you sequester carbon.

we can't imagine the suffering of the people of the future, so nothing much gets done on their behalf. What we do now creates damage that hits decades later, so we don't charge ourselves for it, and the standard approach has been that future generations will be richer and stronger than us, and they'll find solutions to their problems. But by the time they get here, these problems will have become too big to solve. That's the tragedy of the time horizon

What's good is what's good for the land. Instead of working for profit, we do whatever is good for the land. Taking care of the land takes better care of the people over the long haul.

we are always ourselves, no matter where we go. That's what the poem is saying, I think. We have to recognize it, and make what we can here. This world, great as it is, is only just another biome we have to live in.

Energy is the least of it. Since one percent of all electricity created is burned to make bitcoins, seven percent for saving sea level could be seen as a deal. But the physical problems are the stoppers.

Jevons Paradox proposes that increases in efficiency in the use of a resource lead to an overall increase in the use of that resource, not a decrease.

fraudulent blue ozone

Apparently, he'd killed so many family members that he must have significantly affected the Lore's population. Doing my part for the environment.

I-I need a shower," she blurted, scrambling away from him. He raised his brows. "I'm in need of one myself. And we like to conserve water around here.

I have always loved the many moods of the sky at Rocky Flats. Turquoise and teal in summer, fiery red at sunset, iron gray when snow is on the way. The land rolls in waves of tall prairie grass bowed to the wind, or sprawling mantles of white frosted with a thin sheath of ice in winter.

Also pay attention if a tree or whatnot says something about two bulls.

Vissa människor är smartare eller mer musikaliska eller bättre poeter än andra och tillsammans med miljön är generna utan tvekan en del av förklaringen till det. Men dessa gener är inte nedärvda i rasvisa förpackningar.

Nothing grows well without space and air.

The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.