“I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint… I think we will work our way towards a position that says having more than two children is irresponsible.”
Jonathon Porritt, the UK government’s “green guru”, suggests a two-child limit (Daily Telegraph, London, 2 February).
“I thought it was like the end of the world.”
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Anchorage resident Maree Shogren recalls how the eruption of Alaska’s Mount Spurr in 1992 blanketed the city with a black cloud, while anticipating the eruption of another volcano, Mount Redoubt, which has been rumbling (Associated Press, 3 February).
“NASA’s role is to pioneer journeys into the unknown for the benefit of humanity. Along the way, we sometimes experience tragedy instead of triumph.”
US president Barack Obama on NASA’s Day of Remembrance for fallen astronauts (NASA Watch, 29 January).
“A terrorist rodent who could very well have been trained by Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.”
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg describing (tongue-in-cheek) the disgruntled groundhog at Staten Island Zoo which bit him when he tried to lure it from its cage on Groundhog Day (The New York Times blog, 2 February).
“We are anchoring the university in what is in the lab today, with an understanding of what’s in the realm of possibility in the future.”
Entrepreneur Peter Diamandis on a school he is launching for futurologists – the Singularity University – with Ray Kurzweil and Google’s Larry Page (Financial Times, London, 3 February).
