I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.
I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.
If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this. . . it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.
We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.
We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.
The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?
Give up meat to save the planet.
I love color. I'm enjoying trying all different shades. Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.
When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics.
Symons. . . remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.
I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.