Climate Change Quotes - Page 34

• Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Fighting, Winning, Climate

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• Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.

  Satish Kumar

  War, People, Leader

  "Soul man" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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• I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to wealth inequality, do nothing. Health care? Do nothing. Climate change? Nothing. Racism? Doesn’t exist. For a group of people so head over heels in love with self-reliance, they sure do recommend a lot of sitting on their ass.

  Bill Maher

  Self, Racism, People

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• Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

  Don Cheadle

  Climate, Way

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• Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

  James Hansen

  Motivation, Inspiration, Earth

  "James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 7, 2017.

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• Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.

  Atul Gawande

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our Generation

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• It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Selfish

  "How we wrecked the ocean". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2010.

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• It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

  Cass Sunstein

  Climate, Aids, Accomplished

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• Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.

  Jeff Goodell

  Views, Issues, Climate

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• One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

  Jeff Goodell

  Nice, Climate, Frogs

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• We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings, responsible energy use and renewable energy choices are all we need to tackle both energy independence and climate change.

  Edward Mazria

  Winning, Choices, Simplicity

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• Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Years, Energy

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.

  Majora Carter

  Color, People, Community

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• India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

  Jairam Ramesh

  Responsibility, Fighting, Climate

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• Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

  Bill McKibben

  Climate, Needs, Done

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• One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

  Jay Weatherill

  Climate, Cost, Threat

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• Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Falling In Love, Real, Environmental

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• Nature and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud warnings. Today you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms, climate changes and earthquakes as our prophecies said would come. Why do animals act like they know about the earth's problems and most humans act like they know nothing? If we humans do not wake up to the warnings, the great purification will come to destroy this world just as the previous worlds were destroyed.

  Thomas Banyacya

  Animal, Earthquakes, Giving

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• So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

  Bob Inglis

  Way, Climate, Denial

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• Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin

  Ban Ki-moon

  Inspiring, Two Sides, Climate

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• Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

  Christine Lagarde

  Inspiring, Mean, Accountability

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• The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Choices, Facts

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is lousy in our society, from private prisons to Fox News. What I'm arguing is that, in fact, what we've been told is a lie.

  Naomi Klein

  Lying, Growth, News

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• Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society and address raging inequality, create huge numbers of jobs, rebuild our public infrastructure. But, we can't do it unless we break every single rule in the free-market playbook. Which is why the worst people in the world all deny climate change.

  Naomi Klein

  Jobs, Opportunity, Numbers

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• If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.

  Naomi Klein

  Government, Greed, Intellectual

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