Losing Earth Quotes

“The relationship between those who have burned the most fossil fuels and those who will suffer the most from a warming climate is perversely inverted. The inversion is both chronological (younger generations pay for their elders’ emissions) and socioeconomic (the poor suffer what the rich deserve).”
― Nathaniel Rich, Losing Earth: A Recent History

“Nearly everything we understand about global warming was understood in 1979.”
― Nathaniel Rich, Losing Earth: A Recent History

“For human beings to degrade the integrity of the earth by causing changes in its climate, by stripping the earth of its natural forests or destroying its wetlands; for human beings to contaminate the earth’s waters, its land, its air, and its life—these are sins.” For “to commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God.”
― Nathaniel Rich, Losing Earth: A Recent History

“You know, in the Soviet Union they used to have a tradition of ordering scientists to change their studies to conform with the ideology then acceptable to the state. And scientists in the rest of the world found that laughable as well as tragic.”
― Nathaniel Rich, Losing Earth: A Recent History