Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Environmental Impact Quotes
Conservation ChallengesEcologyEnvironmental ImpactIndustrializationSustainability The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
AccelerationEnvironmental ImpactInnovationSustainable EnergyTransformation If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.
BiofuelsCroplandEnvironmental ImpactFood Security Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
AstronomyDisaster PreparednessEnvironmental ImpactPlanetary DefenseSpace Hazards If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.
EnergyEnvironmental ImpactInnovationSustainabilityTechnology It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
Cautionary LessonsClimate ChangeEnvironmental ImpactEnvironmental ResponsibilityPlanetary Science Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It's bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well.
