Climate Change Denial Quotes

• And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as they admit that climate change is real, they will lose the central ideological battle of our time—whether we need to plan and manage our societies to reflect our goals and values, or whether that task can be left to the magic of the market.

  Naomi Klein

  Real, Goal, Magic

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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• David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all.

  Margo Kingston

  Holocaust, Humanity, Climate

  "The Seeds of the Global Warming Police State" by Robert Tracinski, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 29, 2007.

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• I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths.

  Lucy Lawless

  Running, Thinking, People

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• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  Naomi Wolf

  Ignorance, Oil, America

  "America's drought of political will on climate change" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2012.

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• It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.

  David Roberts

  War, Should Have, Climate

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• So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

  Bob Inglis

  Way, Climate, Denial

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