" I would like it to be cool to be impassioned about doing the best first for the planet"
"With a language of 'fear terror and disaster' climate change has captured most of our attention. But I say we need to cool it. We want to help the world-great. But is not a given that the best way to help is to cut CO2."
"I hope we can look future generations squarely in the eye and say that we didn't just do what seemed to be fashionably good; we massively and thoroughly changed the world for the better through simple, tested and cool strategies. We didn't just do something that made us feel good; we did something that actually did good."
These are some of the poignant quotes that I pulled out of Llomborg's book. Although he is framed as a climate change sceptic I think he has a clear sense of positive action enabling us to see past fear mongering and find plausible solutions to the world's biggest issues. Although people oppose him to green campaigner Al Gore, I don't think that this is really correct; they both have the same positive goals to achieve but set out to obtain them in very different ways.
It brings me back to the age old saying "There's more than one way to skin a cat"....
Pluralism of methodology is a great thing and it drives competition and with a positive mindset might achieve different things but to the same end.
I think you have to acknowledge all the positive things that you do and feed off that energy to carry on... that's what I propose to do.
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