Climate Change Quotes - Page 16

• There are probably already too many people on the planet.

  Nina Fedoroff

  People, Global Warming, Planets

  "Earth population 'exceeds limits'". news.bbc.co.uk. March 31, 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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• ...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

  James Hansen

  Cancer, Smoking, Humanity

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• 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

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• It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

  Jerry Brown

  World, Poverty, Global Warming

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• Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Democracy, United States, Global Warming

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• I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.

  David Foreman

  Islands, Looks, Earth

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• It could just be a shift on the axis.

  Bill Cassidy

  Axes

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• Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years.

  Morgan Griffith

  Years, Europe, Climate

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• Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.

  John Boehner

  World, Cows, Carbon

  "NPR News" with David Greene and Renee Montagne, nhpr.org. May 24, 2013.

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• The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Ice, Mars, Melting

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• The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.

  Steve Stockman

  America, World, Fads

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• The government can't change the weather.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Weather, Can't Change

  "Marco Rubio On Climate Change: ‘The Government Can’t Change The Weather’" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

  Steve King

  Proven

  "Steve King: Global Warming ‘More Of A Religion Than A Science’" by Ashley Balcerzak, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 07, 2013.

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• All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

  Michele Bachmann

  Hoaxes, Nonsense, Voodoo

  "Enviros Take Aim at Michele Bachmann (R-Crazytown)" by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Government, Climate, Collaboration

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• Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

  Thomas Friedman

  Light, Leader, Politics

  "Q&A: Columnist Tom Friedman On Climate Change". Interview with Sharon Begley, www.newsweek.com. April 3, 2009.

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• An old American patriot described today’s situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, “we must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

  John F. Kerry

  America, Independence, Together

  "Sen. Kerry says 'amateur hour is over'" by Ben Geman, thehill.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the world. People are saying they want to be perfectly convinced about climate science projections. But speaking as a soldier, we never have 100 percent certainty. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.

  Gordon R. Sullivan

  Military, Issues, Impact

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• Our task is tough, and our time is limited. Party organizations and governments at all levels must give priority to emission reduction and bring the idea deep into people's hearts.

  Hu Jintao

  Party, Heart, Government

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• Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

  James Hansen

  Thinking, Law, Looks

  James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.6, A&C Black

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