I am only like 74 pages into the book. I am in the habit of underlining or folding the page down when I come across something awesome. This is how my book looks so far:
Yeah, ridiculous I know. But I can't stop!! All of his analyzations and commentaries are so brilliant, please read the book! Please!! Here, I will share some awesome ones that will whet your appetite:
"The U.S. entry process 'has created a climate of fear and frustration that is turning away foreign business and leisure travelers from visiting the United States and damaging America's image abroad.' "
"Deforestation in places like Indonesia and Brazil is responsible for more CO2 than all the worlds' cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains combined - that is, about 20 percent of all global emissions."
"With 1.3 billion cows belching almost constantly around the world (100 million in the United States alone), it's no surprise that the methane released by livestock is one of the chief global sources of the gas."
"For the last ten years, every year, we would look at the growth statistics from China or India and say 'Wow, they grew 8 or 9 or 10 percent last year,' a World Bank energy expert remarked to me. 'Well, guess what,' he said, 'the emerging markets have emerged.' "
"We're running an uncontrolled experiment on the only home we have."
"It is hard for France to maintain a thirty-five-hour workweek when China and India have invented a thirty-five hour workday."
"No one can turn off the growth machine, it would be political suicide. Any why would any politician commit suicide? So because no one wants to commit individual suicide, we are all committing collective suicide."
"'China itself uses 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks a year, or 1.66 billion cubic meters of timber' - millions of full-grown trees."
Even if you aren't American, it doesn't matter. He doesn't talk about things that only Americans will understand.
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