Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.
Rajendra K. PachauriRead
We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system that is completely unsustainable. I see solutions to climate change leading to a much larger philosophical shift in the way human society develops. We need a new matrix to define what human progress is.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote highlights the urgent need for a fundamental change in how we define and pursue human progress in the context of sustainability.
Rajendra K. Pachauri emphasizes that our current approach to development is harmful to the environment and unsustainable. He argues that addressing climate change requires not just technological solutions but a profound philosophical transformation in our understanding of progress, necessitating a reevaluation of our lifestyles and economic systems to ensure a sustainable future.
Themes
SustainabilityDevelopmentClimate ChangeProgressPhilosophy
In practice
Example use cases
During a conference on sustainable development, this quote can be used to emphasize the need for a new approach.
More from Rajendra K. Pachauri
All quotes →Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there seems to be little chance of avoiding hugely damaging temperature increases
Rajendra K. PachauriRead
Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind
Rajendra K. PachauriRead
There is, even today, a Flat Earth Society that meets every year to say the Earth is flat. The science about climate change is very clear. There really is no room for doubt at this point.
Rajendra K. PachauriRead
Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.
Rajendra K. PachauriRead
The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate inequalities in health status and access to adequate food, clean water and other resources.
Rajendra K. PachauriRead
Similar quotes
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
John BergerRead
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.
Franz KafkaRead
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past, but also as vehicles for the expression of general philosophic ideas, religious ideas, social ideas.
Aldous HuxleyRead
All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.
Leopold Von RankeRead
Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?
Wayne DyerRead
Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.
Steven WeinbergRead