Climate Quotes - Page 5

• As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

  Al Gore

  Inspirational, Confusing, Everyday

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• Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Issues, Environmental

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• There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

  Nicholas Stern

  Strong, Impact, Action

  Nicholas Stern (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Risk, May, Action

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

  Gerald Brenan

  Anniversary, Wedding, Husband

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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• We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

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• Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

  Bill Gates

  Priorities, Environmental, Needs

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• The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

  Al Gore

  Long, Entering, Warning

  Al Gore (2007). “The Assault on Reason”, p.230, Penguin

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• No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Country, Oregon, Apples

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”

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• Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy efficient, drive less, and eat more local food - you can also tell your leaders to take climate action.

  Frances Beinecke

  Home, Fighting, Climate Action

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• People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale.

  James A. Champy

  Creativity, Ideas, People

  "Reengineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership". Book by James A. Champy, 1995.

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• The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition. Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Kushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey.

  Maimonides

  Country, Religious, Animal

  Moses Maimonides (1961). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.384, Courier Corporation

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• Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.

  Al Gore

  Epic, Years, Weather

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• The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Issues

  "Gore and UN panel are awarded Nobel Peace Prize". www.nytimes.com. October 12, 2007.

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• Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority figure on a team than the coach. Needless to say, in today's warped, self-indulgent climate, too many players couldn't care less about appeasing the coach.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Player, Nba

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• An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.

  Carl Rogers

  Teacher, Parent, Empathy

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• A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in God's name were they doing?" or they may look back and say: "how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?"

  Al Gore

  Children, Names, Two

  "Our World" with David Newman, www.voanews.com. October 27, 2009.

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• An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you can your dollars. The dollars will drive generation choices.

  Ralph Cavanagh

  Choices, Dollars, Generations

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• Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Leader, Blind, Threat

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Fighting, Political Will, America

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they are inherently accepting of those who downplay such problems.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Government, Regulation, Problem

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

  William H. Calvin

  Country, Jobs, Technology

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• Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

  Van Jones

  Champion, Giants, Needs

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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