The ties between humans and primates become evident upon looking at how poorly we navigate trade-offs between short-term comfort, and mid-term climate apocalypse. By Life Nature
We can let go of polluting behaviors just like we’ve let go of in-flight piano bars, gas station clerks and lifetime software licenses. By Nature
In a democracy, rulers are structurally discouraged to enact new climate taxes, regulations and obligations. The benefits will mostly be invisible in the next election cycle, but the uprising may be immediate. By Life Nature Peace
To gauge how serious any government is about climate change, compare the swiftness and significance of its climate actions, to those taken during the latest uprising it faced. By Nature Peace
The industrial revolution marks the moment when the primary focus of science shifted from knowledge expansion, to productivity expansion. By Life
Change would happen at a more adequate pace if climate action was framed as a war against top polluters, rather than a collection of goodwill initiatives towards nature. By Nature
Most modern governments are based on a set of constructs that are hardly distinguishable from religion: founding figures, immuable sets of written rules and institutions dedicated to spreading, updating and enforcing those rules. By Life Peace
Order is a self-fulfilling prophecy – it manifests when most believe that it will be enforced. By Life
America’s entertainment culture has proven more effective at eliminating intellectuals, than Pol Pot’s jails and guns. By Life
Inequality drives all wars, and most wars are waged to maintain it, rather than suppress it. By Peace
Elijah, Jesus or Mahdi could be good substitutes for “technology” in the mouth of those who claim it will save us from climate change. By Nature
The mindset that drove tremendous progress of the human condition, will also be the one that seals its fate. By Nature
In most things, a small group of crooks can herd a large group of idiots to their death as long as the journey is comfortable. Climate action is not different. By Nature
Current technology is incapable of mitigating severe natural disasters, despite centuries of effort. Future technology will not do better with less resources and more severe events. By Nature
Our society model is rooted in destruction – it was shaped by the very warmongers who eliminated most of the human communities that valued peace and nature. By Life Nature Peace
Wealth corrupts the mind. It creates envy in those who seek it, and fear in those who have it. By Life
Climate change has been the cause of all previous mass extinctions. The only difference this time, is that we caused it, not some asteroid, volcano or tectonic shift. By Nature
Boredom is one of the most ubiquitous states. It is both the root of all progress, and all evil. By Life
The difference between intelligence and education becomes most evident at business school parties. By Life
Natural disasters are Earth’s attempts to cleanse its surface from the parasites that feed from it. By Nature
The recent trajectory of humanity resembles that of cancer cells, which replicate exponentially until they eventually kill both their host and themselves. By Nature
