Quotes on Climate Change

And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.

The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment.

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

For too long we have tried to consume our _x000D_ way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted _x000D_ lands and oceans, climate change, growing _x000D_ scarcity of resources from food to land to fresh _x000D_ water, rampant inequality. We need to invent a _x000D_ new model; a model that offers growth and social inclusion... that is more respectful of the _x000D_ planet's finite resources. Nature has been kind _x000D_ to human beings, but we have not been kind to _x000D_ nature.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now with climate change, yet we dither.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems.

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

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.

If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.

Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet

A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.