William H. Calvin Quotes

• You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

  William H. Calvin

  Arrows, Pioneers, Spots

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• Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

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  Energy, Climate, Fuel

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.128, William H. Calvin

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• Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

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  Civilization, Climate, World

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.142, William H. Calvin

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• La energía sin carbono es simplemente algo que tenemos que hacer. El tiempo de hablar ya ha pasado. Si damos la vuelta a las emisiones netas de carbono para 2020 en lugar de 2040, conseguiremos otros 2º de fiebre en lugar de 3º, y eso es una gran diferencia.

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  Past, Differences, Carbon Emissions

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.142, William H. Calvin

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• Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

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  Insecurity, Risk, Usual

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• Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

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  People, Underwater, Fever

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• The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

  William H. Calvin

  Real, Focus, Political

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.165, William H. Calvin

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• Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

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  Years, Climate, Century

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.173, William H. Calvin

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• Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.

  William H. Calvin

  Uplifting, Moving, Two

  William H. Calvin (2010). “A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change”, p.90, William H. Calvin

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• Si no empezamos a pensar a lo grande sobre el problema del CO2, podemos perder la oportunidad de detener un desbocamiento climático que destrozará las zonas habitables de la Tierra.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Missing

  William H. Calvin (2008). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.225, University of Chicago Press

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• It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

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  Cat, Leader, Political

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.177, William H. Calvin

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• Los países que innovan primero consiguen los nuevos puestos de trabajo, desarrollando una ventaja económica sobre los rezagados sin C que acaban teniendo que importar después la tecnología.

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  Country, Jobs, Technology

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• Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

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  Growth, Climate, Stopping

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.137, William H. Calvin

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• Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.

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  Procrastination, Years, Climate

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• Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.

  William H. Calvin

  Addiction, Denial, Fuel

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.31, William H. Calvin

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• Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

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  Years, Atmosphere, Growth

  William H. Calvin (2008). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.225, University of Chicago Press

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