George Monbiot Quotes About Climate Change

Quotes about: Climate Change

• When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

  George Monbiot

  People, Climate, Saint

  "This crisis demands a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2007.

• It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

  George Monbiot

  People, Campaigns, Austerity

  George Monbiot (2007). “Heat: how to stop the planet from burning”, South End Pr

• Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

  George Monbiot

  People, Nuclear, Coal

  "Japan nuclear crisis should not carry weight in atomic energy debate" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2011.

• Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.

  George Monbiot

  Stupid, Holocaust, Climate

  "The threat is from those who accept climate change, not those who deny it". www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2006.

• Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears to be as determined as any terrestrial corporate frontman to prevent a successful conclusion to the climate talks. How I know? Because every time anyone gets together to try to prevent global climate breakdown, He swaths the rich, densely habited parts of the world with snow and ice, while leaving obscurer places to cook.

  George Monbiot

  Running, Successful, Ice

• There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

  George Monbiot

  Mean, Government, Oil

  "We were wrong on peak oil. There's enough to fry us all" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

• Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

  George Monbiot

  Science, Office, Energy

  "I'm all for putting more vehicles on our roads. As long as they're coaches" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2006.

• Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.

  George Monbiot

  Real, Agreement, Environmental

  "Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling". www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2009.

• Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

  George Monbiot

  Generations, Want, Climate Change

  "The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save us" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2008.

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