Quotes About Impact

In the year 2000, wars caused the deaths of 310,000 individuals, and violent crime killed another 520,000. Each and every victim is a world destroyed, a family ruined, friends and relatives scarred for life. Yet from a macro perspective these 830,000 victims comprised only 1.5 per cent of the 56 million people who died in 2000. That year 1.26 million people died in car accidents (2.25 per cent of total mortality) and 815,000 people committed suicide (1.45 per cent).4

Cuando se trata del clima, los países ya no son soberanos. Se encuentran a merced de acciones que otras personas efectúan en la otra punta del planeta.

Family and community seem to have more impact on our happiness than money and health.

mass extinctions akin to the archetypal Australian decimation occurred again and again in the ensuing millennia – whenever people settled another part of the Outer World.

What will happen to this view of life as we increasingly rely on AI to make decisions for us?

This raises the possibility that the immense improvement in material conditions over the last two centuries was offset by the collapse of the family and the community.

But the single most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years came at 05:29:45 on 16 July 1945. At that precise second, American scientists detonated the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico. From that point onward, humankind had the capability not only to change the course of history, but to end it.

A global world puts unprecedented pressure on our personal conduct and morality. Each of us is ensnared within numerous all-encompassing spider webs, which on the one hand restrict our movements, but at the same time transmit our tiniest jiggle to faraway destinations.

Mentre nel 2010 l'obesità e le malattie connesse hanno ucciso circa 3 milioni di persone, i terroristi hanno fatto 7697 vittime in tutto il mondo, la maggior parte delle quali nei paesi in via di sviluppo. Per l'americano o l'europeo medio, la Coca-Cola costituisce una minaccia assai più letale di al-Qaida.

Buying cars and writing novels do not change our biochemistry.

ecological collapse.

At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighing over 100 pounds. At the time of the Agricultural Revolution, only about a hundred remained. Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet's big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing, or iron tools.

Humans are destabilizing the global biosphere on multiple fronts. We are taking more and more resources out of the environment while pumping back into it enormous quantities of waste and poison, thereby changing the composition of the soil, the water, and the atmosphere

Un imperio que no puede aguantar un golpe y seguir de pie no es realmente un imperio.

What's the point of making predictions if they can not change anything?

Sauf à vous satisfaire de confier l'avenir de la vie aux résultats trimestriels, vous avez besoin d'une idée claire de la vie et de ses enjeux.

people should be able to say of me: He has lived, therefore he lives.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

What we take, how and what we make, what we waste, is in fact a question of ethics.

use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Have you noticed how the smarter phones get, the dumber people become?