Quote by Tim Flannery

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate ch

Summary

This quote suggests that despite the urgent need to address climate change, the topic has already become overused and lacks true comprehension. It highlights the challenge in initiating action because the concept of climate change has been reduced to a mere clichÃ©, losing its significance and depth. This undermines effective understanding and prevents meaningful progress in combating the issue.

Topics

Science Climate Change

By Tim Flannery

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Tranquility is the old man's milk

Tranquility is the old man's milk

Thomas Jefferson

Age Tranquility

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, o

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

Love Forgiveness Gratefulness

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chr

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

Christopher Hitchens

Ambition Personality Biography Larger Than Life Winston Churchill

What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you

What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We wan

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Peace

Well fitted for friendship is he whom men have not disgusted

Well fitted for friendship is he whom men have not disgusted with mankind, and who, believing and knowing that there are a few noble men, a few great minds, a few delightful souls scattered through the crowd, never tires of searching for them, and loves them even before he has found them.

Men Love Friendship Mind

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers'

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Education

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

Best

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, wha

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Government

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, th

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Life

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Knowledge