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Why are blondes our best chance for solving climate change? ::
1.Blondes have a big multiplier effect on consumption of stuff. Stop one and you’re halfway there.
2.Anything that threatens a blonde’s skiing holidays is important.
3.One blonde off bling saves the need for one coal fired power station.
4.One blonde on the arm of one climate change scientist raises the status of the science enormously
5.Blondes know the meaning of ‘hot’!
||||Why are surfies our best chance for solving climate change? ::
1.Surfing is low carbon footprint.
2.Surfies are tree lovers they need palm trees to relax under.
3.Tall buildings sticking out of the surf get in the way of a good wave.
4.Surfies are experts in wave-power energy.
5.How many coal fired power stations does it take to surf all year?
||||Why are Africans our best chance for solving climate change? ::
1. Human life started in Africa and after all this time they still have by far the lowest carbon footprint.
||||How many politicians does it take to solve climate change? ::
1.The theory that politicians solve anything at all is yet to be proven.
||||How many bureaucrats does it take to solve Climate Change? ::
1. None. Without bureaucrats carbon levels in the atmosphere would reduce sharply.
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“That’s the thing about Mother Nature she really doesn’t care what economic bracket you’re in.”
Whoopi Goldberg
“I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.”
Steven Wright
“Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.”
Anonymous
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
Albert Schweitzer
“For 200 years we’ve been conquering nature. Now we’re beating it to death.”
Tom McMillan
“The magnificence of mountains the serenity of naturenothing is safe from the idiot marks of man’s passing.”
Bill Vaughan
“It’s hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau who lived beside a pond but didn’t own water skis or a snorkel.”
Loudon Wainwright
“Don’t get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It’s just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there’s an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it’s wireless!”
William McDonough Fortune Brainstorm Conference 2006
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what’s going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?”
Will Rogers
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
Mark Twain
“Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century? I am afraid that it is.”
George Porter British chemist
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Walt Kelly (from “Pogo”)
“We have found the sources of hazardous waste and they are us.”
US EPA from “Everybody’s Problem: Hazardous Waste”
“Somewhere on this globe every ten seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.”
Sam Levinson
“The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.”
Cole’s axiom
“The greenest house is the one that never gets built.”
Whit Faulconer
“Sometimes when I am driving I get so angry at inconsiderate drivers that I want to scream at them. But then I remember how insignificant that is and I thank God that I have a car and my health and gas. That was phrased wrongnormally you wouldn’t say thank God I have gas.”
Ellen DeGeneres My Point and I Do Have One
“Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.”
Steven Wright