Our Fragile Moment Quotes

“Decarbonizing our civilization now remains task number one”
― Michael E. Mann, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis

“Climate change is a crisis, but a solvable crisis.”
― Michael E. Mann, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis

“If we continue to burn fossil fuels, it is likely that the planet will warm beyond the limit of our collective adaptive capacity. How close are we to the edge? In the pages that follow, I set out to answer that question.”
― Michael E. Mann, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis

“Today, our massive societal infrastructure supports more than eight billion people, an order of magnitude beyond the natural “carrying capacity” of our planet (the resource limit of what our planet can provide in the absence of human technology). The resilience of this infrastructure depends on conditions remaining the same as those that prevailed during its development.”
― Michael E. Mann, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis

“The greatest threat to meaningful climate action today is no longer denial, but despair and doomism, premised on the flawed notion that it is too late to do anything. Our review of the paleoclimatic record will tell us otherwise.”
― Michael E. Mann, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis