Gregg Easterbrook Quotes

Instant-doomsday Hyperbole Caused The World's Attention To Focus On The Hypothetical Threat Of Global Warming To The Exclusion Of Environmental Menaces That Are Real, Palpable, And Awful Right Now.

Even Though Rush Is Not Me And The Situations Were Very Different, I Think, In The Rush Limbaugh Thing, Espn Was Criticized For Not Acting, And You Remember That After A Couple Days Of Controversy Over Rush.

A Transition From Material Want To Meaning Want Is In Progress On An Historically Unprecedented Scale-involving Hundreds Of Millions Of People-and May Eventually Be Recognized As The Principal Cultural Development Of Our Age.

I Think Professional Sports, Football, To Use It As An Example, It's Fundamentally A Form Of Entertainment.

You Know, Some Of The Good Part Of Blog Theory Was That Blogs Would Be Like Diaries That The World Could Read. They Would Be Spontaneous, Whatever Pops Into Your Mind, As A Diary Would Be.

A Spacecraft Is A Metaphor Of National Inspiration: Majestic, Technologically Advanced, Produced At Dear Cost And Entrusted With Precious Cargo, Rising Above The Constraints Of The Earth. The Spacecraft Carries Our Secret Hope That There Is Something Better Out There-a World Where We May Someday Go And Leave The Sorrows Of The Past Behind. The Spacecraft Rises Toward The Heavens Exactly As, In Our Finest Moments As A Nation, Our Hearts Have Risen Toward Justice And Principle.

I Don't Think There Are Many Larger Lessons To Be Found In Sports.

Though Environmental Orthodoxy Holds That Third World Deforestation Is Caused By Rapacious Clear-cutters And Ruthless Cattle Barons, Penniless Peasants Seeking Fuel Wood May Be The Greatest Threat To Our Forests.

The Science Has Changed From Ambiguous To Near-unanimous... Based On The Data I'm Now Switching Sides Regarding Global Warming, From Skeptic To Convert.

I Think The Thing That I Most Appreciate Now Is That Stereotypes Involving Jewish Identity Activate Fears Of Persecution That Exist In The Present Day.

If Our Goal In Legislating Against Carbon Releases Is Not Simply Punishing The West And Its Power Companies But Truly Trying To Reduce The Accumulation Of Greenhouse Gasses In The Atmosphere, The Main Event Will Be In The Developing World. We Must Use The Smartest Possible Economics, And That Means Investing In China And India.

Set Aside The Many Competing Explanations Of The Big Bang; Something Made An Entire Cosmos Out Of Nothing. It Is This Realization - That Something Transcendent Started It All - Which Has Hard-science Types... Using Terms Like "miracle."