15. The climate crisis is in its Neville Chamberlain phase right now. People still imagine that a concern with the climate is trendy, and that a judicious head-nod here will mean peace in our time. Those people are not merely mistaken, they are delusionary. They are nodding in disdain at the basic laws of physics. Bruce Sterling
16. “ Climate Change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen. The benefits of strong early action is greater than the its costs .” Sir Nicholas Stern : The Economics of Climate Change
17. Climate change is the the economic equivalent of two world wars and a great depression rolled into one. Sir Nicholas Stern: The Economics of Climate Change
47. “ I call it the politics of "I can". It represents a desire for people to not just have access to material goods, but greater power, control and choice over all aspects of their life, from the jobs they do, the relationships they enter, the services they use, the products they buy. [...] It is an age where people want to be players not just spectators . [...] ‘ Web 2.0 allows the spirit of “I can” to transcend the limits of consumerism, and become a mass movement for cooperation . “ David Miliband: “We can -politics”