Quotes by Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

Agriculture

Forests

Source

By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you’re expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

Impact

Roi

Teaching

Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.

Burning

Climate

Energy

I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I’d imagined.

Different

Planets

Years

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it’s hard to talk of it as a single entity.

Environmental

Movement

Thinking

I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out of this situation with a richer humanity with less impact on the planet, but now I think it has to be paired with effective policy in order to achieve that.

Believe

Technology

Thinking

If the incentives are aligned right – towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources – then you’ll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

Incentives

Natural

Restoration

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.

Able

Technology

Want

If your incentives are set up wrong – if for some reason you reward people for behavior that’s actually bad for your customers or your organization – then you’re going to encourage that behavior.

Incentives

Organization

People

In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there – genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer – is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded.

Technology

Water

Yield

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Able

Achieve

Agriculture

Apples

Aquifers

Atmosphere

Belief

Believe

Brilliant

Burning

Carbon Emissions

Children

Climate

Different

Ecosystems

Energy

Environment

Environmental

Expression

Facts

Feet

Fields

Forests

Ideas

Impact

Incentives

Issues

Land

Movement

Natural

Needs

Numbers

Oil

Optimism

Organization

Ozone

People

Persons

Pie

Pity

Planets

Play

Policy

Powerful

Restoration

Roi

Sky

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Technology

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Quotes by Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam

Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics.

By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you’re expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.

I decided five years ago that I wanted to truly understand, for myself, what the state of the planet was, and when I dug into it, what I found was quite different than I’d imagined.

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it’s hard to talk of it as a single entity.

I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out of this situation with a richer humanity with less impact on the planet, but now I think it has to be paired with effective policy in order to achieve that.

If the incentives are aligned right – towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources – then you’ll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.

If your incentives are set up wrong – if for some reason you reward people for behavior that’s actually bad for your customers or your organization – then you’re going to encourage that behavior.

In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there – genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer – is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded.

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