Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by William H. Calvin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American professor William H. Calvin.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

William H. Calvin is an American theoretical neurophysiologist and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is known for popularizing neuroscience and evolutionary biology, including the hybrid of those two fields, neural Darwinism. He relates abrupt climate change to human evolution and more recently has been working on global climate change issues.

American - Professor | Born: April 30, 1939

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Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

William H. Calvin

Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

William H. Calvin

Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.

William H. Calvin

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

William H. Calvin

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

William H. Calvin

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

William H. Calvin

If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

William H. Calvin

Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather than 2040, we get another 2° of fever rather than 3° - and that's a big difference.

William H. Calvin

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

William H. Calvin

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

William H. Calvin

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

William H. Calvin

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

William H. Calvin

Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.

William H. Calvin

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.

William H. Calvin

Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.

William H. Calvin

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

William H. Calvin

Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by William H. Calvin

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