Hans Joachim Quotes & Sayings

Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend. — Michael Hudson

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death. — Desmond Tutu

As long as I look into the muzzles, nothing can happen to me. Only if he pulls lead am I in danger. — Hans-Joachim Marseille

Don't ask what global climate protection can do for your country; ask what your country can do for climate protection. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Dresden: of all German cities, Smiley's favourite. He had loved its architecture, its odd jumble of medieval and classical buildings, sometimes reminiscent of Oxford, its cupolas, towers, and spires, its copper-green roofs shimmering under a hot sun. — John Le Carre

When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

The first law of humanity is not to kill your children. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge he needed impossible. — Leo Tolstoy

The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

In a sense the U.S. is climate illiterate. If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change even in Brazil, China you have more people who know about the problem and think deep cuts in emission are needed. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer