Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later.

At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor’s safety.

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.

This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.

Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.

I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.

If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing we can do to cut the speed of climate change.

Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste, ' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.

I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

The only way to beat Liverpool is to score more goals than them.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.