Science Always Uses Metaphor.

If We Gave Up Eating Beef We Would Have Roughly 20 To 30 Times More Land For Food Than We Have Now.

The Inertia Of Humans Is So Huge That You Can't Really Do Anything Meaningful.

I Know That To Personalize The Earth System As Gaia, As I Have Often Done And Continue To Do In This Book, Irritates The Scientifically Correct, But I Am Unrepentant Because Metaphors Are More Than Ever Needed For A Widespread Comprehension Of The True Nature Of The Earth And An Understanding Of The Lethal Dangers That Lie Ahead.

By The End Of This Century, Climate Change Will Reduce The Human Population To A Few Breeding Pairs Surviving Near The Arctic.

We'd Never Have Got A Chance To Go Outside And Look At The Earth If It Hadn't Been For Space Exploration And Nasa.