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Saul Griffith
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Sydney, Australia
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“The romantic notion of our global ancestors living ‘in balance with nature’ is not supported by evidence. It turns out, as detailed beautifully by Hans Rosling in his book Factfulness, that our ancestors ‘died in balance with nature’, with such high death rates that the impact on nature was less per person.”
― The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future
― The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future
“Incidentally, a fully loaded modern jet aircraft gets the equivalent of around 60 miles per gallon (MPG) per passenger, so for traveling long distances, they beat solo road trips in cars (but if you take four friends with you, even a gas-guzzling American car is not so bad—”
― Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
― Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
“In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of United Nations scientists who summarized the worldwide findings on climate change, concluded that meeting the Paris target of 1.5°C/2.7° F would be possible, but it would require “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.”10”
― Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
― Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
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