Once again, I’m adding a fresh new feature to my home page. What is this new feature? Every month, I’m going to select something to quote and designate it as my ‘quote of the month.’ I’ll aim to post this somewhere between the 1st and the 15th each month going forward.
This one I’ve selected below is a perfect quote for the month of Earth Day. But as you’ll see, it’s also a way to illustrate how disgraceful it is that we relegate that to just one day a year. Earth Day should be every day.
By the way, this part I’ll be quoting comes from a speech Harold Kroto gave in Italy, at the Euroscience Open Forum 2010, as reported by Tom Siegfried, the then-editor in chief of Science News (in the Aug. 28, 2010 issue, page 32). Harold Kroto shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene (better known as buckyballs).
And now, without further ado, here is the April 2026 “Quote of the Month”:
“Saving the planet (…) I don’t know whether we can do it, but we need everybody in the world to recognize this is our biggest problem.”
Right now, that’s a very tall order. It’s also a big reason why our prospects for saving the planet don’t look very promising (to put it mildly). I have lots of big ideas and strategies in mind that could help make a huge difference in the fight to save the planet. But considering where we’re at now — Kroto spoke those words half a dozen years before Trump won his first term, and now here we are again, only now it’s much worse — what we really need is for someone like a simpatico billionaire (or someone with a very large following) to unite with me to help get my message out. I’m just being realistic. We’ve been flying fast and furious in completely the opposite direction for so long.