"Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task."

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Source : Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

Joseph J. Romm

#Cities Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Rebuilding Quotes

“Ted Cruz is trying to have a one-on-one debate with Donald Trump.”

Source : "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.
“Time is a river, and books are boats.”
“One of us... One of them... One of us... One of them... A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track -- never ending but going nowhere.”
“Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.”
“If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.”
“There can never be a more beautiful you....”
“No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.”
“Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.”

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