Climate Change Quotes - Page 10

• Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

  Jan Egeland

  Change, Climate, Disaster

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• One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

  Ed Miliband

  Change, War, Years

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• The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Change, People, Climate

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• The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change... that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem.

  Jason David Frank

  Change, Lying, People

  "Universities under pressure to ‘divest’ from fossil fuels" by Maxim Lott, www.foxnews.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to a reality if 50% of that money was devoted to finding natural reasons for climate change.

  Roy Spencer

  Reality, Climate, Would Be

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• ... For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming. Even though atmospheric CO2 has continued to accumulate - up about 4 percent in the last 10 years - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That should raise obvious questions about CO2 being the cause of climate change.

  Walter Cunningham

  Mean, Years, Climate

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

  Lucy Lawless

  Running, Thinking, People

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• I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Thinking, Issues, Climate

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Australia, Government, Progress

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think that the climate change policy and strategy that we have developed and that we have rolled out thus far is an example of incredibly high-quality work, incredible collaboration by an exceptionally large number of well-informed people.

  Rachel Notley

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

  Al Gore

  Challenges, Humanity, Climate

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• By looking the other way on climate change we facilitate a collective denial, and we do it for each other.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Climate, Denial, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Climate change has been associated so much with a peaceful mentality - obviously peace and love are good, but we need to think about climate as a threat to survival.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Thinking, Peaceful, Survival

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not competent about this issue.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Issues, People, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's very important to invite and encourage people to talk about climate change who have a lay understanding. In general, there is a lot of confusion among climate activists about the role of science, that scientists should be social and political leaders of this movement.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Thinking, Confusion, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Climate change is the sine qua non of continued civilization. We either solve this, or it's lights out. Turning into a collective like that is so much more aligned with how humans live and think and change.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Thinking, Light, Civilization

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The problem is so severe that trying to say, "First we'll fix the government and then we'll tackle climate change," or, "First we have to figure out alternative systems to capitalism and then we'll tackle climate change," I don't see how those things are possible in the very short term.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Government, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• With climate change, of course there are things to grieve. I certainly grieved that the vision that I had for my life, that I would be a clinical psychologist and write books and have a family, that that was not going to happen, because if the world is collapsing around you, it just doesn't seem that appealing anymore.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Book, Writing, Grieving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I used to be a lot more afraid of climate change. Now I spend my time working, planning, trying to move forward.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Moving Forward, Trying, Climate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Social movements throughout history take place in people's minds. If we got 5,000 Americans who were talking about climate change to their neighbors and to their coworkers, and talking about this pledge, that would change the political and social landscape so much more than if 5,000 people got arrested for protesting a pipeline.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Talking, People, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For Christians, doing something about climate change is about living out our faith - caring for those who need help, our neighbors here at home or on the other side of the world, and taking responsibility for this planet that God created and entrusted to us.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Responsibility, Home

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Colorado's economy is already being threatened by unchecked climate change.

  Michael Bennet

  Climate, Colorado, Economy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [The Clean Power Plan] is an important step toward curbing carbon pollution and addressing climate change.

  Michael Bennet

  Important, Climate, Steps

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries.

  James L. Barksdale

  Ocean, Reality, Tourism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

  Mark Kirk

  Men, Climate, Happenings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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