"Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking."

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Source : Mike Hulme (2013). “Exploring Climate Change Through Science and in Society: An Anthology of Mike Hulme's Essays, Interviews and Speeches”, p.88, Routledge

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“Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it's a question of priority. I feel it's one of the most important areas of concern ecologically, because the petrochemical giants - DuPont, Monsanto - make huge money by poisoning us.”
“Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.”
“It seems to me that large numbers of people are now paying attention to poverty and that large numbers now understand that blaming the poor and the insecure for being poor and insecure is as unseemly as is schoolyard bullying. In that realization lies hope for a reinvigorated discourse around poverty and inequity in modern-day America.”
“There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.”
“Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.”
“When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.”

Source : Song: Like You Do, Album: Tennessee Moon, 1996
“It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.”
“Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the futureâ€”and making the future happen. They arenâ€™t always aware of the intricacies of operations and the impacts of the solutions they propose, just like entrepreneurs, but they arenâ€™t afraid of confronting a blank piece of paper (or screen or board) and getting to work making something new.”

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