Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.

I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically correct, but I am unrepentant because metaphors are more than ever needed for a widespread comprehension of the true nature of the Earth and an understanding of the lethal dangers that lie ahead.