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 qu…

- Ramez Naam

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

- Ramez Naam

Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the…

- Ramez Naam

Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage ar…

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That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in pres…

- Ramez Naam

The more widely you can spread this notion of achieving ROI by preserving and improving ecosystems, the better.

- Ramez Naam

Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifer…

- Ramez Naam

Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on…

- Ramez Naam

When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with nature and our natural resource…

- Ramez Naam