Climate Quotes - Page 8

• We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

  Jay Inslee

  Impact, Generations, Lasts

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• The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in the matter if we believe the research produced by climate scientists. The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

  Robert Pollin

  Believe, Yield, Oil

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• A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world’s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical.

  Mark Z. Jacobson

  Air, Wind, Water

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• I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic change to the climate system. Well I am one scientist, and there are many that simply think that is not true.

  John Christy

  Thinking, Issues, Global Warming

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• There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate but we are wasting precious time.

  James Hansen

  Precious Time, Stills

  "Here comes the sun: chilling verdict on a climate going to extremes" by By James Hansen, www.theage.com.au. August 7, 2012.

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• I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it. They play less. If I start a tune and then the pianist has to solo, I am looking to everybody to get to a certain climate and then I come back in while the energy is up high. Somehow that doesn't happen.

  Pharoah Sanders

  Music, Play, California

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• If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.

  John Hoeven

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

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• At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Country, Jobs, Pace

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• So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.”

  Amy Goodman

  New York, Iraq, Environmental

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• If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

  Phil Jones

  Selfish, Political, Happens

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• There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is irrational.

  James Lovelock

  Two Sides, Growth, Ignorant

  "Stop blaming the poor. It's the wally yachters who are burning the planet" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2009.

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• Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.

  James Lovelock

  Stupid, Conservation, Humans

  "James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.

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• Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

  Amy Goodman

  Country, Impact, Islands

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.96, Haymarket Books

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• On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

  Pope Francis

  Ethical, Clear, Imperatives

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• A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case, the drawback is a straightforward consequence of America's approach to firearms. A well-armed citizenry required an even-better-armed constabulary. Widespread gun ownership creates a systematic climate of fear on the part of the police. The result is a quantity of police shootings that, regardless of the facts of any particular case, is just staggeringly high. Young black men, in particular, are paying the price for America's gun culture.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Gun, Men, America

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• We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

  Heinz Guderian

  Country, Revenge, Military

  "Images of Kursk : History's Greatest Tank Battle, July 1943". Book by Nikolas Cornish, p. 6, 2002.

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• I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

  Jane Siberry

  Difficult, Music Is, Household

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• The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Passion, Government, Hatred

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• Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

  Sam Simon

  Answers, World, Problem

  "Terminally Ill 'Simpsons' Co-Creator Vows to Give Away Fortune". Interview with Gary Baum, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2013.

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• ...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Rain, America

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• [V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Garden, Weather, Ivory

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• Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Light, Feelings

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.10, Vintage

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• We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Justice, Degrees, Doe

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

  Jack Layton

  Believe, Challenges, Canada

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