Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. |
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. |
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest. |
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average. |
One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil. |
You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job. |
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. |
Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. |
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. |
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all. |
I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen. |
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. |
For each of our actions there are only consequences. |
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long. |