Climate Quotes - Page 35

• We must prepare for a changing climate by incorporating climate preparedness into every aspect of our planning - for food, water, health, energy, even national security. We must reduce our emissions to prevent even more dangerous change.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Water, Energy, Planning

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• Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Fighting, Opportunity, Growth

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• Despite everything that is going on our climate and injustice in our country, we can't forget to come together celebrate the number of times the Tragically Hip helped bring us together and have our hearts moved. That is us honouring the life force, whatever that is. Celebrating is a duty.

  Sarah Harmer

  Country, Heart, Numbers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Climate change is critical to me because I'm a parent; I feel a sense of responsibility to the future. I'm not going to be around to see its worst effects, which are going to be hitting in the 2030s, '40s, '50s, but my kids will.

  James Cameron

  Kids, Responsibility, Parent

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• If people fear that they have to choose between their job or fixing the climate, they will always protect their job. Because that's how they live to see tomorrow.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, People, Fixing

  "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". Interview with Nicholas Goldberg, www.latimes.com. July 27, 2017.

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• While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks the ambition to truly meet the challenge. The next step is to move aggressively toward a transition to 100% clean renewable energy as quickly as possible (that means no fossil fuels, nuclear, or big hydro).

  John B. Quigley

  Moving, Ambition, Mean

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• What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars.

  Nikki Reed

  War, Ocean, Animal

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• I was able to say to everyone, 'Would you be willing to take a role that you've cherished and worked on for a long time and change it to female?' And there was not any hesitation, which was a real win. That hopefully shows a shift in the climate for women in film, although we still have some climbing to do.

  Sandra Bullock

  Real, Winning, Climbing

  Interview with Cindy Pearlman, acttwomagazine.com.

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• We need to do as much as we can from every direction or we will surpass that two-degree climate increase. Actually, the science is showing we are already en route to surpassing two degrees.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Two, Degrees, Needs

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• When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.

  Al Gore

  Differences, Bigs

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere.

  Katie Cleary

  Oil, Atmosphere, Burning

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• I know that everybody who supported Bernie Sanders supported him because they believe that college debt is too high. They believe that the minimum wage needs to be increased. They believe that we have to take on climate action.

  Keith Ellison

  Believe, College, Climate Action

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there.

  Ella Baker

  Mother, Lying, Virginia

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• The mountain glaciers in every region of the world are melting, many of them at an accelerated rate, threatening drinking supplies - drinking water supplies and agricultural water supplies. We have these record storms, drought, floods, fires, three deaths (ph) in the American West, climate refugees beginning now, expected to rise to the hundreds of millions unless we take action.

  Al Gore

  Drinking, American West, Fire

  "Gore talks climate change, jobs in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell". www.nbcnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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• Only a developed society, for example, only a strong democratic system in modern conditions can create a climate in which any manifestation of terrorism is unacceptable and can also make the state itself stronger.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Example, Terrorism

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• This one's like that because it's about these things that I think weigh heavily on me in terms of my own failings and the things that I worry about and my personal demons. Is the sum of my personal demons greater than the things that I like about myself? Is this moment - because it's a particulary high tension, scary moment for all of us in terms of the global climate - going to bring out the best or the worst in us?

  Scott Snyder

  Thinking, Worry, Scary

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

  Edward Albee

  Responsibility, Thinking, Usa

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• My party's supporters have seen how European political leaders are allowing asylum seekers and migrants to come to us and how they're spending billions of euros on them. In Dubai, the police drive Lamborghinis. These countries aren't poor. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states should take care of these people. They're closer, have the same religion, the same climate, the same culture.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Party, Dubai

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Creating, Community, Different

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I'm going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.

  Al Gore

  Helping, Crisis, Solve

  Interview with Andrea Mitchell, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• We, the older generations, simply cannot leave a world for you, the younger generations, in which climate change impacts become ever more threatening to your survival. Still more public attention and action are needed. Solutions like renewable energy or energy efficiency need to fully power our collective future!

  Christiana Figueres

  Impact, Survival, Energy

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• There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Wall

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• All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Strong, Progress, Skepticism

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• Climate change is such a consequential crisis to everybody in the world.

  Hillary Clinton

  World, Climate Change, Crisis

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Thinking, Issues, Corporations

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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