Climate Change Quotes And Sayings

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“C’mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president’s office, or storm in on the next meeting of
your college’s board of trustees until they agree to make your school carbon neutral.”
– Thomas Friedman

“One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood.”
– Tim Flannery

“As long as scepticism is based on a sound understanding of science it is invaluable, for that is how science progresses. But poor criticism can lead those who are unfamiliar with the science involved into doubting everything about climate change predictions.”
– Tim Flannery

“Before, if we screwed up, we could move on. But now we don’t have an exit option. We don’t have another planet.”
– Tim Flannery

“In the years to come, this issue will dwarf all the others combined. It will become the only issue.”
– Tim Flannery

“21st Century regenerative farming is the brightest hope for our planet to reverse the effects of global warming, and to protect and improve the health of farmers,
global citizens and future generations.”
– Timothy LaSalle

“A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence… There is no doubt that the time to act
is now.”
– Tony Blair

“My home island will sink under the water, and there will be no place for me to live.”
– Vaimaila Teitala

“A family-friendly “eco-populism” can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of demands. The momentum
will build, through these early efforts, for more comprehensive solutions.”
– Van Jones

“Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.”
– Van Jones

“Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry’s strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal
reserves.”
– Van Jones

“By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can’t be outsourced.”
– Van Jones

“Clean coal” represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.”
– Van Jones

“Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength – and win a better future for generations to come.”
– Van Jones

“Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either
survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big
problems require big solutions.”
– Van Jones

“Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined
planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.”
– Van Jones

“Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.”
– Van Jones

“An increase of two or three degrees wouldn’t be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.”
– Vladimir Putin

“Men argue. Nature acts.”
– Voltaire

“The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth’s climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.”
– Wallace Broecker

“Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead
now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?”
– Wesley Clark

“I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet. … I see truly a non-carbon economy. It’s cleaner.
It’s healthier. We’re about out of alternatives, so it’s going to be easier and more cost effective to start to do the right thing.”
– Will Wynn

“Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.”
– William H. Calvin

“Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather than 2040, we get
another 2° of fever rather than 3° – and that’s a big difference.”
– William H. Calvin

“Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today’s students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.”
– William H. Calvin

“Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction – rather like what happens if you don’t pay off your
credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.”
– William H. Calvin

“If we don’t start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.”
– William H. Calvin

“Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.”
– William H. Calvin

“I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.”
– William J. Clinton

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