There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.

Only nuclear power can now halt global warming.

What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity has ever had. Now the party is over and the Earth is reckoning up.