5 Quotes & Sayings By James Hansen

James Hansen was born in Minnesota in 1909, and received his education at the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin. He practiced law for many years in Chicago and was an assistant attorney general in the US Department of Justice. He died in 1987.

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