The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising
UCF Unifying Theme
Our Planet. Our Education. Our Future.
http://www.ut.ucf.edu/
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Our sense of time spans two generations back in the past and two generations forward into the future. That’s it. Most people cannot name a single great-grandparent. Few parents can conceive of the possibility of their child someday becoming a grandparent. It’s our historical and future-looking myopia that makes it pretty much impossible to for us to even imagine the distant future.
“Why we won’t stop climate change” an op-ed of doom published by Al Jazeera today. (via climateadaptation)
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Some quotes about climate change from a growing collection I keep. Here’s the comic on my site.
Among a growing number of scientists, social innovators, community leaders, nongovernmental organizations, philanthropies, governments and corporations, a new dialogue is emerging around a new idea, resilience: how to help vulnerable people, organizations and systems persist, perhaps even thrive, amid unforeseeable disruptions. Where sustainability aims to put the world back into balance, resilience looks for ways to manage in an imbalanced world.
Andrew Zolli, Learning to Bounce Back
In my line of work, we no longer use the word “sustainability” very often. These days, it’s all about “resilience.”
Despite what the GOP is trying to sell you, global warming and its devastating effects are very real, and they’re only going to get worse. For the people who do the actual work to keep cities and populations on track, the focus is now on dealing with it — and thriving in spite of it.
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(via poptech)
“These weather events are not simply an example of what climate change could bring. They are caused by climate change.” ––James Hansen, NASA Climate Scientist
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If you were teaching a graduate seminar in public policy and challenged your students to come up with the most difficult possible problem to solve, they’d come up with something very much like climate change. It’s slow-acting. It’s essentially invisible. It’s expensive to address. It has a huge number of very rich special interests arrayed against doing anything about it. It requires international action that pits rich countries against poor ones. And it has a lot of momentum: you have to take action now, before its effects are serious, because today’s greenhouse gases will cause climate change tomorrow no matter what we do in thirty years.
There has been no discussion of global warming. And I think the American public, as I talk to them, want detailed answers and they want candor and they say, hey, look, don’t try to smoke me this time.
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