Thomas Friedman Quotes About Climate Change

Quotes about: Climate Change

• We're going in the wrong direction and I think the only way to counter that is to bring the story home in really concrete ways to people - in ways that kids can understand and non-scientists can understand.

  Thomas Friedman

  Home, Kids, Thinking

• I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we tell the world we couldn't care less about climate change, that we feel entitled to drive whatever big cars we feel like, that we feel entitled to consume however much oil we like, the message we send is that a war for oil in the gulf is not a war to protect the world's right to economic survival-but our right to indulge. Now that will be seen as immoral.

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, War, Oil

• The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together.

  Thomas Friedman

  Together, Needs, Safari

  Thomas L. Friedman (2009). “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future”, p.262, Penguin UK

• Scientists tend to focus on what they don't know more than what they do know. And there are a lot of things we still don't know about the climate. But we know the difference between climate variability and climate change, and right now the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is well outside the variability pattern - and that's quite quantifiable.

  Thomas Friedman

  Focus, Atmosphere, Scientist

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• What if we're wrong and there is no climate change? Well, by doing everything possible to address it, we will still use less water, stimulate new energy savings and, in time, money-saving technologies, enjoy cleaner air, and preserve more forests and trees and animals.

  Thomas Friedman

  Animal, Technology, Water

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• Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

  Thomas Friedman

  Light, Leader, Politics

  "Q&A: Columnist Tom Friedman On Climate Change". Interview with Sharon Begley, www.newsweek.com. April 3, 2009.

• 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

  School, Kids, College

• Combating climate change requires government policy, and most conservatives hate the idea of more government regulation. Because they hate the prescription, they deny the diagnosis.

  Thomas Friedman

  Hate, Climate Change, Policy

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