Citas de Elizabeth Kolbert

• It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  What Matters, People, World

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Puede parecer imposible imaginar que una sociedad tecnológicamente avanzada pueda optar, en esencia, por destruirse a sí misma, pero eso es lo que estamos haciendo ahora.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Essence, Climate, May

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2012). “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?”, p.130, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Loss, Sharks, Lakes

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Motivational, People, Focus

  "A Planetary Problem". Interview with Amy Davidson, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2005.

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• Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Nice, Men, Might

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.141, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Lying, Keys, Dna

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• En cuanto se reconoce que estamos cambiando el planeta a esta escala, que tiene repercusiones potencialmente masivas y muy dañinas, la siguiente pregunta es: ¿qué vamos a hacer al respecto?

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Next, Scales, Planets

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Distance, Men, Museums

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Watches, Extinction, Serious

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  People, Records, Fossils

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Cuando vas en coche al supermercado, tu intención no es cambiar el mundo, simplemente resulta que tiene ese impacto. Así que hemos hecho muchas cosas sin darnos cuenta, y sí, el mero hecho de ser inusual, como dices, no te sitúa por encima, en cierto sentido, de ninguno de los demás organismos con los que compartimos este planeta.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Impact, Doe, Done

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Years, Two, World

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2012). “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Frogs, Saws

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct. It depends what "eventually" means. But the idea that were going to be around for the rest of global history...I don't think there's any scientist who would suggest that is true. It could be millions of years from now. We may leave descendants that are humanlike.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Media, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Kolbert on Mass Extinctions - and Our Own Eventual One". Interview With Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2014.

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• The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at the geological time, you can't find anything like us.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Looks, Earth, Natural

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• For a long time, science has gone in the direction of sort of putting people in their place. We learned that the sun doesn't revolve around the Earth, the Earth revolves around the sun; we learned that we're just another species, evolved, like all other species, so we're just another animal, really.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Animal, Long, People

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• People sometimes say we need to be really almost on a wartime footing if you want to change. Our whole economy is based on burning fossil fuels, which is taking CO2 out of the ground and putting it up into the air.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Air, People, Needs

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Running, Errors, Light

  "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Mundo

  "Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Kolbert on Mass Extinctions - and Our Own Eventual One". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2014.

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• No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Matter, Global Warming, Trump

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Ideas, Guy, Generations

  "Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Kolbert on Mass Extinctions - and Our Own Eventual One". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2014.

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• [On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Age, Movement, Information

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• If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling radical decline, and that is not a position that conservation biologists want to be in.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  People, Want, Fields

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• You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface of the Earth in very dramatic ways.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Moving, Animal, Earth

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Children, Kids, Past

  "Spoiled Rotten" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. July 2, 2012.

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