"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
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