Jared Diamond book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Page 498
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
Jared Diamond book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Page 498
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)
Jared Diamond book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Source: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), Chapter "The world as a polder: what does it all mean to us today?", section "If we don't solve them..." (Penguin Books, 2011, page 498, ISBN 978-0-241-95868-1.
Brian Souter (1954) British businessman
As quoted on the CityAM Web Site http://www.cityam.com/news-and-analysis/the-father-the-uk’s-transport-business-sees-recovery-the-way (26th July 2010 )
Freeman Dyson (1923) theoretical physicist and mathematician
The New York Review of Books (12 June 2008)
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist
not just the extinction of species and animals and plants, that fifty years ago was the first signs of impending global disaster, but traffic congestion, oil prices, pressure on the health service , the growth of mega-cities, migration patterns, immigration policies, unemployment, the loss of arable land, desertification, famine, increasingly violent weather, the acidification of the oceans, the collapse of fish stocks, rising sea temperatures, the loss of rain forest. The list goes on and on. But they all share an underlying cause. Every one of these global problems, environmental as well as social becomes more difficult – and ultimately impossible - to solve with ever more people.
How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? (BBC Horizon, 2009)
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
Donald Tsang (1944) Hong Kong politician
Statement during a Business for Clear Air conference, as quoted in "Tsang hit for 'naive' comments" by Mimi Lau in The Standard (28 November 2006) http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=32856&sid=11078442&con_type=1&d_str=20061128&sear_year=2006