Climate Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Patriotic, Rights, Insightful

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81), 2004.

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• But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.

  Adam Smith

  Children, Science, Doe

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Time is running out for the climate

  Chris Rose

  Running, Global Warming, Time Is Running Out

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• Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

  Brian Cox

  Economics, Climate Change

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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 scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.

  John Olver

  Atmosphere, Energy, Industrialization

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• Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

  Lillian Smith

  Christian, Children, Home

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• Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.

  Sebastian Copeland

  Examination, Moments, Process

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.

  Al Gore

  Taken, Fire, Ice

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Impact, People

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I've always kind of hated films about climate change.

  Avi Lewis

  Kind, Film, Hated

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

  Avi Lewis

  People, Stories, Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I really hate to be Debbie Downer right now, because everyone would love to say, "Yeah, we're finally doing something on climate!

  Josh Fox

  Hate, Yeah, Downers

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• There's something really happening and really moving, and it's exciting and it makes me very optimistic because it is going to be the engine for how we really combat climate change. Which is strong communities.

  Josh Fox

  Strong, Moving, Optimistic

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occured in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Average, Organization

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• Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

  John James Audubon

  Art, Powerful, Wish

  Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Elements, Conclusion, Approach

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• Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood forests into paper towels or preventing people from sitting down at lunch counters because of the color of their skin. On climate change, we have not seen strong leadership coming from Washington, DC.In particular the president has an enormous opportunity to follow up on his inaugural speech with a concerted course of action to aggressively take on a clean energy transition.

  Michael Brune

  Strong, Opportunity, Color

  "Sierra Club Turns to Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone Pipeline". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2013.

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• For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material like the mixtape. Now we would call it "collaborative filtering" or something technical, but the impulse is the same - gather fragments, make something new. That is how you will bypass the climate-change skeptics: render them totally obsolete.

  DJ Spooky

  Clouds, Records, Mixtapes

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book. We discussed whether or not you'd have to take a gondola to the Empire State Building, and that sort of thing, but we didn't know at the time whether the climate change would be in the direction of heating or cooling. We just didn't know enough about it.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Book, Optimistic, Writing

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• The things that happen are an earthquake, another bomb in Iraq, some big jolt on Wall Street in oil prices, and then you have some new study on drought patterns from climate change. Or another little incremental improvement in photovoltaics. Where do those fit in to the daily stream? They don't.

  Andrew Revkin

  Wall, Earthquakes, Oil

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• The single greatest issue for me as an environmentalist is climate change. I'd have to say that climate change is the single most important issue facing the environmental community and communities as a whole.

  Jerome Ringo

  Issues, Community, Environmental

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It is in fact necessary to reduce CO2 emissions. There is no reason why we shouldn't spend our vacations on (the North Sea island of) Sylt instead of in the Seychelles, or drive more economical cars - for the sake of preserving increasingly scarce resources if nothing else. But that won't enable us to stop climate change. As long as China, India and the United States continue the way they have been, what we Germans do is more or less irrelevant.

  Hans von Storch

  Vacation, Islands, Sea

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Because of the inherent time lag in the climate system, the greenhouse gases that have already been pumped into the atmosphere will undoubtedly lead to a certain increase in temperature in the coming decades.

  Hans von Storch

  Atmosphere, Lag, Temperature

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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