Climate Change Quotes - Page 15

• We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.

  Ronen Sen

  People, Energy, Excess

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• Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation...Our package not only responds to this challenge, but...is an opportunity that should create thousands of new businesses and millions of jobs in Europe.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Jobs, Opportunity, Our Generation

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• We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. We can save our planet and also boost our economy at the same time.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Energy, Too Late, Global Warming

  "Schwarzenegger Backs Global Warming Bill". The Associated Press, www.denverpost.com. September 27, 2006.

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• The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the UK's transition from here to 2020...every business, every community will need to be involved. Together we can create a more secure, more prosperous low carbon Britain and a world which is sustainable for future generations.

  Ed Miliband

  Together We Can, Issues, Community

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• Europe cannot solve this alone. We need stronger U.S. activity on the climate change issue if we are going to move forward. We are trying to do what we can to convince them to be more active on this.

  Anders Borg

  Moving, Europe, Issues

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• We acknowledge-now with President Obama-that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem we face with climate change.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Mistake, President

  "Clinton Defends U.S. Demands for Anti-Terror Help", www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2009.

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• Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as impossible as that would be under any realistic scenarios. No national security emergency exists relative to climate that would warrant increased governmental control of energy production. Today's Americans have an obligation to future Americans to elect leaders who do not believe in an omnipotent government but believe, as did the Founders, in limited government, and in the preservation of liberty and the natural rights of the people.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Believe, Rights, Government

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• We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.

  David Cameron

  Challenges, Age, Energy

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• Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

  Barack Obama

  America, Challenges, Energy

  "Obama lays out environmental proposals in a video address to green governor" by Daniel Nasaw, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.

  Julia Gillard

  Real, Energy, Climate

  "Australian prime minister lays out climate-change plan". www.cnn.com. July 23, 2010.

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• ...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.

  Angela Merkel

  Risk, Energy, Climate

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• India was a late comer to industrialization, and as such, we have contributed very little to the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But we are determined to be part of the solution to the problem.

  Manmohan Singh

  Energy, India, Industrialization

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• We have pledged to be the greenest government ever. We must lead by example...We are not asking others to do things we will not do ourselves.

  Charles Hendry

  Government, Energy, Example

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• Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.

  Arne Duncan

  Effort, Promise, Energy

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• ...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.

  Gordon Brown

  Years, People, Water

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• I think we can say our energy system will be the most efficient and environmentally friendly in the world.

  Angela Merkel

  Thinking, Friendly, Energy

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• All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.

  Tony Blair

  Children, Smart, School

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• This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.

  Barack Obama

  Ocean, Energy, Environment

  Democratic Nomination Victory Speech, delivered 3 June 2008, Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Numbers, People, Energy

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• One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's radar until very recently. 25 to 33 percent of climate change gases can be traced to the food system. I was also surprised that those diseases that we take for granted as what will kill us - heart disease, cancer, diabetes - were virtually unknown 150 years ago, before we began eating this way.

  Michael Pollan

  Cancer, Heart, Thinking

  "Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner". Interview With Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.

  Al Gore

  Children, Cutting, Growth

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• Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people would be needed in a drastically reduced population - weighing the value of scientists and musicians against that of politicians, for example...

  Susan Blackmore

  People, Work Out, Musician

  "Survival of the selfish" by Sue Blackmore, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2006.

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• We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

  David Foreman

  May, Extinction, Sake

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• The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

  Eric Pianka

  Real, Technology, Men

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• Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

  Bill Maher

  Mass Destruction, Order, Oil

  "Real Time" with Bill Maher, votesmart.org. March 24, 2006.

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