The Reality Bubble Quotes

“But that's the grand irony: countries will go to war to decide who owns the hydrocarbons and then countries gather to decide who does not own the carbon dioxide.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“Our constructed world has become so real and dear to us, we've forgotten that what we call reality is a product of our minds....It's ironic then, that we say children live in a world of make believe, because in truth, adults do too. The difference is, children can tell you that their world is made up, whereas adults cannot.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“The iron that makes our blood red was made in the final moments before a star died. For all of us, then, our very lifeblood began with a spectacular death in a solar system.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“How differently would we see our time on Earth if we wrote the date as January 26, 4.543 billion?”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“Think of fossil fuels that go into mining and smelting, manufacturing, transporting, and assembling a wind turbine before it starts pumping 'clean' electricity into the grid, and you begin to glimpse just how deeply wedded even the most ambitious plans for the future are implicated in the energy of the past.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“Our first blind spot is that reality is not human-sized. What we call reality is only a tiny sliver in the grand scheme of things.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“In total, the world produces approximately three million metric tons of garbage every twenty-four hours.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: How Science Reveals the Hidden Truths that Shape Our World

“When one does not see what one does not see, one does not even see that one is blind. — PAUL VEYNE”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: How Science Reveals the Hidden Truths that Shape Our World

“...while people may present different versions of themselves to their families, friends, or bosses, computers are neutralè they capture the digital trail of all our personas.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“Our data is valuable because that's how we are targeted as consumers. From the moment you turn on your computer or smartphone and begin to browse the internet, you are being invisibly followed.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“We may well be the only species on Earth to actively deprive our own kind from inhabiting a space when it is available.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“What we put out into the environment will eventually find its way back into our bodies.”
― ziya tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“We like to think the water we drink is fresh, but scientist believe that water is older than the sun.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World