“We need to make sure that everyone in the world can live a good life and we need to reduce our environmental impacts so that future generations can flourish too. That puts us in uncharted territory. **No previous generation had the knowledge, technology, political systems, or international cooperation to do both at the same time**. ([Location 546](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=546))” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[climate-change]], [[optimism]] **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]