Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
AdvocacyUrgencyInformationGlobal Attention My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.
EnergyProblemUrgencySolutionDevelopment The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Space ExplorationSurvivalUrgencyInnovationResponsibility It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
Energy AlternativesClimate ChangeResource ManagementUrgency It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.
Climate ChangeUrgencyDelayed ImpactConsequence By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.
