Quotes About Impact

we live on a live planet that can respond to the changes we make, either by cancelling the changes or by cancelling us.

six billion people.

the breath of 7 billion people, our pets and our livestock puts into the already overburdened atmosphere 7 billion tons of CO2 a year.

it would take the Earth more than a thousand years to recover from the damage we have already done,

We are like passengers on a large aircraft crossing the Atlantic Ocean who suddenly realize just how much carbon dioxide their plane is adding to the already overburdened air. It would hardly help if they asked the captain to turn off the engines and let the plane travel like a glider by wind power alone. We cannot turn off our energy-intensive, fossil-fuel-powered civilization without crashing; we need the soft landing of a powered descent.

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

I never knew her in life. She exists for me through others, in evidence of the ways her death drove them

The relevance of the church is not found in its capitulation to culture but in its transformation of culture.

The American axe! It has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any warlike people that ever lived; but they have been conquests that have left civilization in their train instead of havoc and destruction…. A brief quarter of a century has seen these wonderful changes wrought; and at the bottom of them all lies this beautiful, well-prized, ready, and efficient implement, the American axe!

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

The malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history, more people than all the murderers in history, more than all the suicides in history, not only does structural violence kill more people than all the behavioral violence put together, structural violence is also the main cause of behavioral violence

Unequal societies are not only the most violent; they are also the least productive.

The economy is now consuming the planet's available resources on a scale that rivals their supply while releasing its waste products back into the environment on a scale that greatly affects the major biogeophysical cycles of the planet.

He said it would be too late to change course once the impact of the buildup began to be felt.

One of the volumes, "Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and the Global Carbon Cycle," noted that CO2 levels had varied in the last million years with a high point, during warm, interglacial phases, of 350 ppm.21 An enormous amount had been learned; the "Projecting the Climatic Effects of Increasing Carbon Dioxide" alone was over 400 pages long, and is full of hard evidence of how much the federal government knew about the impacts of burning fossil fuels.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

Ideas we don't know we have, have us.

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

In effect, Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

is a direct connection between suburban sprawl and the spiraling cost of government, and most Americans don't see it yet, including many in government. Likewise