15 Quotes by William H. Calvin

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.

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

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

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

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

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