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Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning QUOTES

Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning QUOTES

1 " Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people. "

― George Monbiot , Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning

2 " Confronted with the twin disasters of climate change and an impending oil peak, it is hard to see how anyone could justify the assertion that the need to drive a car which can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles an hour in 4.5 seconds (the Audi S4 for example) overrides the Ethiopians' need to avoid recurrent famines, or the whole world's need to avoid the economic catastrophe we'll suffer if petroleum peaks too soon. "

― George Monbiot , Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning

3 " In managing our transport systems, our governments must constantly negotiate the paradox of mass movement. They must create a system which, for the sake of speed and efficiency, treats us like a herd, constantly prodded and coralled, divided, re-formed and forced into line. At the same time it must grant us the illusion of autonomy. "

― George Monbiot , Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning

4 " The trouble is that people hate coaches, and for good reason. Coach travel is a dismal and humiliating experience. When I take the bus, as I sometimes must, from Oxford to Cambridge, I arrive feeling almost suicidal. "

― George Monbiot , Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning