Red Mars (1992) All page numbers are from the mass market paperback edition published by Bantam Spectra ISBN 3-5 (29th printing) All italics as in the book As quoted in 'Heroes of the Environment 2008' in Time (24 September 2008).Science is-or should be-the greenest force of all.

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial … Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Götterdämmerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.As quoted in 'Future tense' in The Guardian (14 September 2005).It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position.It's slow, tedious, inconclusive, it's hard to tell good guys from bad guys - it's everything that a normal hour of Star Trek is not. There are many facets of science that are almost exactly opposite of dramatic narrative. The whole process of science is wildly under-represented in science fiction because it's not easy to write about. Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power. Quotes Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

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