Climate Change Quotes - Page 23

• Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.

  Jean Ziegler

  Believe, Humanity, Way

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• We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.

  Alfred W. Crosby

  Two, Car, Decision

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• The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

  Lester R. Brown

  Use, Fuel, World

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• Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.

  Alfred W. Crosby

  Hangover, Civilization, Energy

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• The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fields, Bread, Strange

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.370, Wildside Press LLC

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• The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

  Lester R. Brown

  Junk, Aberration, Half

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.229, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

  Alfred W. Crosby

  Population, Crash, Explosions

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• Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of coastal cities will be abandoned. The rice growing river deltas of Asia will be under water. There will be hundreds of millions of rising-sea refuges. The word that comes to mind is chaos. If we cannot mobilize to save the Greenland ice sheet; we probably cannot save civilization as we know it.

  Lester R. Brown

  Ice, Sea, Civilization

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• If there is one area where equity is crucial and essential,
  I think it should be the issue of water.

  Kofi Annan

  Thinking, Issues, Water

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• In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them.

  Lester R. Brown

  Sight, People, Water

  "This will be the Arab world's next battle" by Lester R. Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate inequalities in health status and access to adequate food, clean water and other resources.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Country, Fall, Impact

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• If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices:
  1-Totally accept it.
  2- Change it.
  3-Remove myself from the situation.
  That is taking responsibility for my life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Responsibility, Choices, Three

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• Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Oil, Challenges, Humanity

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• It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.

  Greg Nickels

  Waiting, Needs, Problem

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• Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Nature, Deviation

  Samuel Johnson (1856). “Rasselas”, p.43

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• Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

  George Washington

  Wish, World

  "Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious".

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• It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

  Frederick Seitz

  Cutting, Environmental, Problem

  "2008 Climate Debate" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. March 31, 2008.

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• The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their purchasing habits to drive deforestation and companies are responding. Better still, companies are committing to working in partnership with suppliers, governments and NGOs to strengthen forest governance and economic incentives. It can be done and this Declaration signals a real intention to accelerate action.

  Paul Polman

  Real, Race, Government

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• The Caring for Climate initiative is fully aligned with our own explicit commitments, which reflect our respect for society in which we operate, respect for the environment, respect for the future generations. Climate change must be addressed through mutually beneficial collaboration and multi-stakeholder channels to be effective ultimately.

  Jose Lopez

  Commitment, Caring, Climate

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• Mondelez International is a proud signatory to the New York Declaration on Forests, an important step to unite governments, NGOs and business to slow and then end forest loss. We can't act alone to halt deforestation or climate change, so we call on everyone to play a role. While it won't be easy, I believe this agenda is achievable if we link it directly to business goals.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  New York, Believe, Loss

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• Combating climate change is absolutely critical to the future of our company,Green Cooler customers, consumers-and our world. I believe all of us need to take action now. PepsiCo has already taken actions in our operations and throughout our supply chain to 'future- proof' our company-all of which deliver real cost savings, mitigate risk, protect our license to operate, and create resilience in our supply chain.

  Indra Nooyi

  Real, Believe, Taken

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• This week we saw progressive business and faith leaders making strong commitments that are moving ahead of what world leaders promised today. The leaders of major economies must be bolder than they were today in providing a vision for 100% renewable energy for all.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Strong, Moving, Commitment

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• The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote, and so on I would argue that if what is at stake is securing life as we know it, then there can be no bigger struggle that we face.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Struggle, Democracy, Slavery

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• Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

  Desmond Tutu

  Climate, Earth, Defence

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• Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can stop it, we have a responsibility to do so that began in the genesis of humanity, when God commanded the earliest human inhabitants of the Garden of Eden, "to till it and keep it". To "keep" it; not to abuse it, not to make as much money as possible from it, not to destroy it.

  Desmond Tutu

  Responsibility, Garden, Eden

  "We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2014.

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