Climate Change Quotes - Page 28

• Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

  James Hansen

  Essentials, Rising, Fuel

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• 'Cap and trade' generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business. Tax with 100% dividend, in contrast, would spur our economy, while aiding the disadvantaged, the climate, and our national security.

  James Hansen

  Special, Spurs, Climate

  A letter to Obama by James and Anniek Hansen, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

  James Hansen

  Civilization, Coal, Planets

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• 'Goals' and 'caps' on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the air.

  James Hansen

  Air, Carbon Emissions, Long

  A letter to Obama by James and Anniek Hansen, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2009.

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• How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

  James Hansen

  Long, Degrees, Temperature

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• As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there are some issues where you have to draw the line - where you have to stand up and be counted, and you have to do the right thing. I think climate change is firmly in that category.

  Edward Davey

  Thinking, Games, Issues

  "Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Climate change threatens every man, woman and child.

  Edward Davey

  Children, Men, Climate

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• Every generation faces a challenge. In the 1930s, it was the creation of Social Security. In the 1960s, it was putting a man on the moon. In the 1980s, it was ending the Cold War. Our generation's challenge will be addressing global climate change while sustaining a growing global economy

  Eileen Claussen

  War, Moon, Men

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• The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so thin. We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have.

  Eileen Collins

  Air, Eggs, Atmosphere

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• A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.

  George Carey

  Country, Children, Our World

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• Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

  George Monbiot

  Generations, Want, Biosphere

  "The planet is now so vandalised that only total energy renewal can save us" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Every person is the right person to act. Every moment is the right moment to begin.

  Jonathan Schell

  Action, Moments, Persons

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• As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists, the public inevitably ends up with a misimpression about the state of our scientific understanding.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Long, Understanding, Receiving

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Regret, Believe, Failing

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• The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Years, Three, Melting

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes.

  Joseph J. Romm

  New Orleans, Sea, Cities

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.

  Laurie David

  Love Is, Risk, And Love

  Laurie David (2006). “The Solution is You!: An Activist's Guide”, p.2, Fulcrum Publishing

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• A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.

  Nicholas Stern

  Years, Would Be, World

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• Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet

  Nicholas Stern

  Thinking, Politician, Difficult

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• Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.

  Maria Rodale

  Climate, Action, Switching

  Maria Rodale (2010). “Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe”, p.159, Rodale

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• Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have to make even bigger cuts if we're going to allow the developing world to have their share of growing industrial prosperity...The Kyoto Protocol is only the first rather modest step. Much, much deeper emission reductions will be needed in future. The political implications are mind-blowing.

  Michael Meacher

  Country, Cutting, Kyoto Protocol

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• Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

  Paul Hawken

  Party, Healing, Persistence

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.14, Penguin

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• How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income?

  Paul Hawken

  Confused, Past, People

  Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins (2013). “Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution”, p.321, Routledge

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• Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.

  Prince Charles

  World, Today, Faces

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• If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.

  Prince Charles

  Children, Thinking, Impact

  "Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.

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