Climate Quotes - Page 16

• When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it.

  David Harewood

  Change, Children, Thinking

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• Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe.

  Laurent Fabius

  Change, Ocean, Sea

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• Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Justice, Challenges, Suffering

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Block, Issues, Keys

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• We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Should Have, Cities

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• The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.

  Pope Francis

  Common, Common Good, Belonging

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.38

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• It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.

  Prince Ea

  Home, Heart, Gay

  "Dear future generations: Sorry". Prince Ea's video address to the people about mitigating climate change on Earth Day, www.globalcitizen.org. April 22, 2015.

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• The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate.

  Charles Koch

  Hurt, Average, Use

  "Charles Koch on the 2016 race, climate change and whether he has too much power". Interview with Matea Gold, www.washingtonpost.com. August 4, 2015.

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• I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

  James Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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• I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Country, Inspiration, Home

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. May 12, 2008.

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• People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax.

  James Cameron

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

  Jason Mraz

  Technology, Our Generation, Soil

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• Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

  Stephen Covey

  Long, Innovation, Example

  Source: www.christiansarkar.com

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• I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Musical, Needs

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).

  Bill Nye

  Everyday, Needs, World

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• I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Calling, Things Change

  Interview with Ed Finn, www.slate.com. February 6, 2015.

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• It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Dirty, Tired, Air

  "Power Q&A: Ed Begley Jr". Interview with Jennifer Vogel, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Transhumanist technology will do much for the world that the world can't really imagine yet, including overcome some of the climate issues the world is facing.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Technology, Issues, Overcoming

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• I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate.

  Steve Nash

  Beautiful, Beach, America

  Source: www.complex.com

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• We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Important, Bears, Adaptation

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.

  Franny Armstrong

  Turns, Short Time, Dies

  Source: www.lidf.co.uk

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• There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate. In a drought year an organic field of corn will yield more - considerably more - than a conventional field; organic fields hold moisture better so they don't need as much water. It simply isn't true that organic yields are lower than conventional yields.

  Michael Pollan

  Yield, Years, Water

  "Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner (Extended Interview)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

  Susan George

  Worry, Climate Change, Effects

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• The whole transgender movement idea is happening in waves around the world. Some areas of the world are further along politically than others. The economy has a lot to do with that, as does moral or religious climate.

  Kate Bornstein

  Religious, Ideas, Doe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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