Charles C. Mann : (3)

" You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen? The Administrative Procedure Act is designed to thwart this sort of maneuver. " - Charles C. Mann

" So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China’s endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning. " - Charles C. Mann

" There are several types of greenhouse gasses, but carbon dioxide is the most important. " - Charles C. Mann