Rob Nixon Quotes & Sayings

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. — Rob Nixon

It is a pervasive condition of empires that they affect great swathes of the planet without the empire's populace being aware of that impact - indeed without being aware that many of the affected places even exist. How many Americans are are of the continuing socioenvironmental fallout from U.S. militarism and foreign policy decisions made three or four decades ago in, say, Angola or Laos? How many could even place those nation-states on a map? — Rob Nixon