"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Why should we care about the Earth when our duty is to the poor and the sick amongst us. God will take care of the Earth."
- Mother Theresa, 1988
"There are four prophets who are worshiped and venerated throughout the world. The Christians worship Jesus Christ; the Saracens worship Mohammed; the Jews, Moses; and the idolaters, Sakyamuni Burkham [Buddha]. I honor and respect all four and through them I honor Almighty God who is in heaven and to whom I pray for help."
- Kublai Khan, from The Travels of Marco Polo (approximately 1270 to 1300)
"What's at the root of all religions?
"Death! Or, more precisely, the fear of death."
- Lewis Black, Me of Little Faith 2008
"Religion is based on dissatisfaction with the real world."
- Lewis Black, Me of Little Faith 2008
"Why do we need religion at all? Wouldn't life work just as well if we kept ourselves higher than kites on an assortment of drugs, so we could maintain the moronically blissful grin one sees on so many born-again Christians?"
- Lewis Black, Me of Little Faith 2008
Monday, January 11, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & the Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock, 2006
"We are dangerously ignorant of our own ignorance, and rarely try to see things as a whole."
"What makes it [this book on global warming] different is that I speak as a planetary physician whose patient, the living Earth, complains of fever."
"We have grown in number to the point where our presence is perceptibly disabling the planet like a disease. As in human diseases there are four possible outcomes: destruction of the invading disease organisms; chronic infection; destruction of the host; or symbiosis - a lasting relationship of mutual benefit to the host and the invader."
"Smoke and dust pollution of the northern hemisphere reduces global warming by reflecting sunlight back to space. This 'global dimming' is transient and could disappear in a few days if there were an economic downturn or a reduction of fossil fuel burning."
"We are still tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruelest of ways for the good of our tribe."
In-depth discussion of these rather strange quotes can be found at:
http://katheswritings.blogspot.com
"What makes it [this book on global warming] different is that I speak as a planetary physician whose patient, the living Earth, complains of fever."
"We have grown in number to the point where our presence is perceptibly disabling the planet like a disease. As in human diseases there are four possible outcomes: destruction of the invading disease organisms; chronic infection; destruction of the host; or symbiosis - a lasting relationship of mutual benefit to the host and the invader."
"Smoke and dust pollution of the northern hemisphere reduces global warming by reflecting sunlight back to space. This 'global dimming' is transient and could disappear in a few days if there were an economic downturn or a reduction of fossil fuel burning."
"We are still tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruelest of ways for the good of our tribe."
In-depth discussion of these rather strange quotes can be found at:
http://katheswritings.blogspot.com
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