Johan Rockström Quotes

born 1965 Sweden

Johan Rockström (born 31 December 1965) is a Swedish professor who served as executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University.

Sweden
Academics
Scientists

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We are on average, moving towards four degrees warming this century. And we haven’t been in a four-degree warmer world for the past four million years. So it’s not as if it’s a place we know very well.

Interview in the documentary-film Before the Flood by Fisher Stevens (2016)

Meat plays a disproportionately large role in causing this overuse of freshwater. Twenty-five percent of the rivers in the world no longer reach the ocean, because we're taking out so much water to produce animal feed. … Agriculture is not only the biggest culprit threatening the future for humanity on Earth, it is also the biggest and most important silver bullet to a solution.

Interview in the documentary-film The Game Changers by Louie Psihoyos (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Johan Rockström (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.