We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
Interpretation
We need to manage our energy consumption as resources deplete. Taking action now will allow us to shape our future rather than being dictated by it.
This quote by Jimmy Carter emphasizes the urgent need for sustainable energy practices in light of dwindling natural resources. It advocates for proactive measures that will empower us to influence the direction of our future, rather than becoming passive victims of our circumstances. By balancing energy demands with the limitations of our resources, we can create a better world for future generations.
In practice
During a climate change seminar, one might use this quote to emphasize the urgency of adopting sustainable energy practices.
Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world - water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution - if we tackle them with courage and foresight.
The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.
I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.
If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.
My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.
We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.
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