Do You Seriously Expect Me

The Whole Imposing Edifice Of Modern Medicine Is Like The Celebrated Tower Of Pisa - Slightly Off Balance.

If You Think About The Impact Of Climate Change, [it Should Be How] A Doctor Would Deal With The Problem. A Scientific Hypothesis Is Tested To Absolute Destruction, But Medicine Can't Wait. If A Doctor Sees A Child With A Fever, He Can't Wait For [endless] Tests. He Has To Act On What Is There. The Risk Of Delay Is So Enormous That We Can't Wait Until We Are Absolutely Sure The Patient Is Dying.

Scientists Themselves Readily Admit That They Do Not Fully Understand The Consequences Of Our Many-faceted Assault Upon The Interwoven Fabric Of Atmosphere, Water, Land And Life In All Its Biological Diversity. But Things Could Also Turn Out To Be Worse Than The Current Scientific Best Guess. In Military Affairs, Policy Has Long Been Based On The Dictum That We Should Be Prepared For The Worst Case. Why Should It Be So Different When The Security Is That Of The Planet And Our Long-term Future?

There's Nothing Like A Jolly Good Disaster To Get People To Start Doing Something.

The Simple Fact Is That The World Is Not Paying For The Services The Forests Provide. At The Moment, They Are Worth More Dead Than Alive-for Soya, For Beef, For Palm Oil And For Logging, Feeding The Demand From Other Countries. ... I Think We Need To Be Clear That The Drivers Of Rainforest Destruction Do Not Originate In The Rainforest Nations, But In The More Developed Countries Which, Unwittingly Or Not, Have Caused Climate Change.