Van Jones Quotes About Climate Change

Quotes about: Climate Change

• 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

  Dream, Home, Turtles

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

• Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

  Van Jones

  Winning, Together, Generations

• 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

  War, Levels, World

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

• 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

  Effort, Friendly, Would Be

• Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

  Van Jones

  Successful, Long, Principles

• 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

  Oil, People, Coal

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.13, Harper Collins

• By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, America, Addiction

• Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.

  Van Jones

  Marketing, Coal, Burning

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.12, Harper Collins

• 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

  Ocean, Two, Hot

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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