Quotes About Irreversible

Climate change is occurring and is effectively irreversible on timescales that are meaningful to us. Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities.

Since the signing of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, abating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been regarded as an urgent global responsibility.2 GHGs linger in the atmosphere for decades, centuries, and even longer. When this is coupled with the fact that their impacts are mediated through various complex systems, the result is that climate change is practically irreversible on the timescales that most of us care about.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

Do other people, remembering their parents, feel, as I do, a sense of having inadvertently done a small though significant, irreversible wrong?

It will be always hard to accept and trust people again if you were hurt so much, this is what the term irreversible is used for.

I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversible numbness...!

the second hand sweeping clockwise as a constant reminder that once those precious moments were gone, there was no getting them back.

When I say "I am filled with rage," the criminal says, "But why?"And when I blow things up and make life generally unlivable for the criminal (is my life not unlivable too?) the criminal is shocked, surprised. But nothing can erase my rage- not an apology, not a sum of money, not the death of the criminal- for this wrong can never be made right, and only the impossible can make me still: can a way be found to make what happened not have happened?

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

In contrast, historical time is a concrete and living reality with an irreversible onward rush. It is the very plasma in which events are immersed, and the field within which they become intelligible.

There are some things you can't un-fuck.

but I do believe one ought to recognize the irreversible nature of reality, particularly if one wants to avoid it.

Reo Malone - "You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

But there was no pressing CTRL+Z on a day, no loading a previous copy.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy-but that could change.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.

Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

It is time, my dear, to begin.' 'If you don't mind me asking – begin what?' 'Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations.

After all, Leonie knew better than most that there were some situations that just couldn't be fixed, and some actions that couldn't be undone.

The creditors' objective is to replace the customary right of citizens to self-support by its opposite principle: the right of creditors to foreclose on the property and means of livelihood pledged as collateral (or to buy it at distress prices), and to make these transfers irreversible.

each of us humans has a moment-if not many-in which we lapse. for some, the transgression involves sex. for others, simply doubt or a rage so all encompassing, it impels us to make irreversible decisions. but whatever the transgression is doesn't really matter. what matters is that lapsing is our fate. we humans are doomed to it. worse, it is our destiny to look back longingly, with nostalgia, at our world before we changed, at who we were Before. we can never forget. but we can never go back.