While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.
Graciela ChichilniskyThe sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source.
Graciela ChichilniskyTrying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.
Graciela ChichilniskyChanging an economic system that is bent on uncontrolled and poorly measured economic growth and depends on fossil energy for its main objectives, is much more difficult than changing how nuclear energy is used for military purposes. Some think it may be impossible.
Graciela ChichilniskyWe are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.
Graciela ChichilniskyWe know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous.
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