Climate Change Quotes

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  Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Nature, Inspiration

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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• To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

  Ken Livingstone

  Quality, Climate, Way

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• A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between.

  Steven F. Hayward

  Men, Resilience, Climate

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• How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.

  David Attenborough

  Eye, Grandchildren, Looks

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  We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

  Utah Phillips

  Names, People, Dying

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• Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Change, Impact, Environmental

  "Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come". Rajendra K. Pachauri's speech at the news conference during the presentation of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Yokohama, Japan, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2014.

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• It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline.

  Barack Obama

  Choices, Environment, Prosperity

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• Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Waiting, Climate

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• It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Environmental

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• Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

  Ronald Reagan

  Common Sense, Challenges, Conservative

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

  David Suzuki

  Nature, Wall, Car

  "Green giants: the eco power list" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Climate, Peril

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

  Barack Obama

  Fixing, Generations, Planets

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

  Pope Francis

  Home, Climate, Looks

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.19

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• Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Issues, Environmental

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• Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Parent, Generations

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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  Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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• Men argue. Nature acts.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Men, Arguing

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.462, Voltaire

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• We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

  Bill McKibben

  Wake Up, Warning, Given

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• The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.

  Al Gore

  Government, Ice, Sea

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• I don't believe ... global warming is real. Do we have climate change? Yes. Is it a crisis? No. ... Because the science, the real science, doesn't say that we have any major crisis or threat when it comes to climate change.

  Herman Cain

  Real, Believe, Climate

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• All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Real, Men

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

  Tony Blair

  World, Splits, Politics

  Labour Party Conference Speech in Brighton, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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