Rhys Darby Quotes

With science, technology and globalization, man is changing the world faster than his evolution can keep up with the new dangers.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

You only have to ask yourself, "What would happen if the entire population of India and China had two-car garages and were living at the technological and the economic standard that the American middle class is today?" The planet would become very rapidly uninhabitable.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

I consider myself fundamentally more of an environmentalist than many of the environmental groups. We have to come up with new sources of food, new sources of water, new sources of energy. Trying to ignore leading-edge science and technology as a means of getting there is an ostrich approach of burying your head in the sand.

We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are faced with the very real question of whether we can be sustainable on this planet - whether or not, in fact, we can endure.

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don't deal with climate change.

I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.