“unlike traditional commodities, which sometimes during the course of their market exchange must be delivered to someone in physical form, the carbon market is based on the lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no one.”

Mark Schapiro (apparently) in Harper’s in early 2010 [I found it here https://www.integrity-research.com/wanted-independent-research-to-assess-carbon-offsets/ but the link back to Harper’s is broken, as is a similar link in another piece quoting it; perhaps Harper’s pulled it; this piece attributes it to Mark Schapiro: https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/columns/air-travel-major-contributor-to-climate-change/].

“You are what you do, not what you say you will do.”

Carl Jung, quoted as Standalone “Words of Wisdom” in Epoch Times email teaser December 15, 2022 [not further attributed].

“Alfred North Whitehead, wisely wrote that the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity that is on the far side of complexity.”

Richard John Neuhaus’s intro to Allan Carlson, Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis p. x. [and referring back explicitly to Paul Ricoeur’s second naivete quoted here on March 24, 2023].

“‘God Will Never Give You More Than You Can Handle In Life,’ Says Man Unfamiliar With God, Life”

Headline on Babylon Bee piece Oct. 8, 2022 [https://babylonbee.com/news/god-will-never-give-you-more-than-you-can-handle-in-life-says-man-unfamiliar-with-god-life].

“I once went to an International Labour Organization meeting in Geneva, and by the end of it I was ready to jump into Lake Geneva. It was so g***ed slow. It took them two days to welcome the chairman.”

Jack Munro and Jane O’Hara Union Jack

“God deliver me from my friends! I’ll take care of my enemies myself.”

The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]

“If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.”

The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]

“Why would a journal [The Lancet] committed to scientific rigor & medical ethics totally ignore the good reasons people have for stigmatizing untreated mental illness?/ Find out at my Substack!”

Tweet from Michael Shellenberger October 11, 2022 [https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1579914325405622272] pointing to his piece “Dark Side of Destigmatization/ No human being should be stigmatized. But untreated mental illness and addiction are dangerous and destructive, and should be.”