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“ What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet. ”

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Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.

~ James Hansen

With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.

~ James Hansen

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

~ James Hansen