Climate Action Quotes

• Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

  Carl Sagan

  Fate, Rivers, Air

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• Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Politics, Climate Change, Planets

  "EU sets targets of 40% carbon cut and 27% share of renewables by 2030". Live, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2014.

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• Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all

  Ban Ki-moon

  Opportunity, Foundation, Climate Change

  "Climate change affects us all. So what's stopping us joining forces to act on it?" by Ban Ki-moon, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2014.

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• If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.

  Paul Krugman

  Want, Global Warming, Opposition

  "Who Cooked the Planet?". www.nytimes.com. July 25, 2010.

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• Taking bold climate action now has the potential to unleash the full power of business and at the same time lift millions of people out of poverty. We're the first generation to recognize this and the last generation that will have this opportunity.

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, People, Generations

  "Climate Week: B Team Reminding Business, World Leaders of Undeniable #BusinessCase for Net Zero". "Sustainable Brands" Interview, www.sustainablebrands.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy efficient, drive less, and eat more local food - you can also tell your leaders to take climate action.

  Frances Beinecke

  Home, Fighting, Play

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• The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.

  Bill McKibben

  Ideas, India, Reason

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Republicans are committed to global warming as a hoax, or irrelevant, or as not a problem. That is their belief. I'm not going to put them in jail. All I can do is talk and encourage good climate actions and demonstrate our economy has benefited here [in California].

  Jerry Brown

  California, Jail, Hoaxes

  "'The world shifts': Gov. Jerry Brown talks California, climate change and President Trump". Interview with Chris Megerian, www.latimes.com. April 15, 2017.

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• I know that everybody who supported Bernie Sanders supported him because they believe that college debt is too high. They believe that the minimum wage needs to be increased. They believe that we have to take on climate action.

  Keith Ellison

  Believe, College, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In my view, this is not extremism on the left. This is what the American people support in poll after poll. Support the right to a job. Support living wages. Support real climate action. Support small community-based banks that make loans available to every day people and small businesses, not these too-big-to-fail banks that rip us off, that crash the economy at taxpayer expense. Support a public-option healthcare system, not Obamacare, which has been a boondoggle for insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Rip, Real

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

  David Titley

  Thinking, Three, Stools

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• We now know that climate action does not require economic sacrifice. This is fully in line with the World Bank Group's findings. It is up to all of us to make smart policy choices that will help combat climate change. For example, putting a price on carbon is a necessary step and could drive resources and investments to a cleaner economy.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Smart, Sacrifice, Choices

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