Elizabeth Kolbert Professions : Journalist Born : 1961 Browse All Authors Top 45 quotes by Elizabeth Kolbert One of the reasons that people, many people, many environmentalists are critical of President [Barack] Obama's policies towards global warming is on the one hand he says the right things and he says he's committed to trying to reduce our current emissions. Elizabeth Kolbert trying hands people Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people. Elizabeth Kolbert planets disease people You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't. Elizabeth Kolbert fossils economic fuel Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error. Elizabeth Kolbert errors light running In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled. Elizabeth Kolbert two children thinking Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalist All Authors