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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Climatologists can, today, predict with uncanny accuracy where a hurricane will hit, and at what intensity, as much as a week out from landfall; this is not just because the models are good but because all the inputs are known. When it comes to global warming, the models are just as good, but the key input is a mystery: What will we do?”
— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
Tagged: Climatology , Climate
“Western liberals have comforted themselves by contorting their own consumption patterns into performances of moral or environmental purity—less beef, more Teslas, fewer transatlantic flights.”
— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
“Since 1950, much of the good stuff in the plants we grow—protein, calcium, iron, vitamin C, to name just four—has declined by as much as one-third, a landmark 2004 study showed. Everything is becoming more like junk food. Even the protein content of bee pollen has dropped by a third.”
— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
Tagged: food, Junk Food
“More than half of the carbon exhaled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has been emitted in just the past three decades.”
— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
Tagged: carbon, Global Warming
“We have already exited the state of environmental conditions that allowed the human animal to evolve in the first place, in an unsure and unplanned bet on just what that animal can endure.”
— David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
Tagged: Human Life, Climate
“Your job looks horrible to me. I feel for you. I’m glad that you’re willing to do it, because we need people like you to do it, but I ain’t fuckin’ doing it, no way. I would rather die in a mine, any day, no doubt. Holy shit. No. Not happening. Spell check? You’re out of your fucking mind.”
— John Bajoras, Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze
“What online-only company is really profitable? Basically none of them. That’s this dirty secret”
— Michael Preysman, Everlane needed to open stores because 'basically' no online-only companies are profitable, CEO says
Tagged: Online Stores
“The business models of the web are broken and toxic, and we need to identify new ways to support creators and to reward creativity.”
— Ryan Merkley, Mozilla and Creative Commons want to reimagine the internet without ads, and they have $100M to do it
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes, Toxic Web
“You don’t listen, do you? You just ask the same questions every week. 'How’s your job? Are you having any negative thoughts?' All I have are negative thoughts.”
— Arthur Fleck / Joker, Joker
Tagged: Negativity
“Executives from some of the biggest U.S. news organizations met with a British economist last fall at Washington’s exclusive Metropolitan Club to strategize on a mutual obsession: getting their industry out from under the thumb of Google and Facebook.”
— NANCY SCOLA, MARGARET HARDING MCGILL, Inside the media industry’s struggle to take on Silicon Valley
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes