Climate Quotes - Page 13

• Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

  Stephen Covey

  Long, Innovation, Example

  Source: www.christiansarkar.com

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• I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Musical, Needs

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The sun-belt and the technology belt can become very powerful when they begin to understand themselves as a community: a community of energy, water and climate security; a community for their common future.

  Prince Hassan bin Talal

  Peace, Powerful, Technology

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• Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).

  Bill Nye

  Everyday, Needs, World

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• I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Calling, Things Change

  Interview with Ed Finn, www.slate.com. February 6, 2015.

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• It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, People, Rabbits

  Interview with Ed Finn, www.slate.com. February 6, 2015.

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• We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Mass Extinction, Events, Asteroids

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.

  Bill McKibben

  People, Goal, Understanding

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Dirty, Tired, Air

  "Power Q&A: Ed Begley Jr". Interview with Jennifer Vogel, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the "clean tech" space.

  Vinod Khosla

  Technology, Thinking, Space

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Transhumanist technology will do much for the world that the world can't really imagine yet, including overcome some of the climate issues the world is facing.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Technology, Issues, Overcoming

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• I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate.

  Steve Nash

  Beautiful, Beach, America

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Unfortunately, there's a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because of climate change. It seems like the problems just won't stop. That's what got me to quit my cushy University job and take a big pay cut to work on conservation.

  Mark Powell

  Jobs, Ocean, Cutting

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• Oceans need more attention because climate change IS an ocean issue. Our oceans will be the first victim, and sea life will suffer dramatically. Detailed proof is hard in ocean science, but I think we're already seeing big ocean changes caused by climate change, such as starvation of whales, seabirds, and other animals off the coast US west coast.

  Mark Powell

  Ocean, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Important, Bears, Adaptation

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Justice, Challenges, Suffering

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Country, Responsible, Climate Change

  Source: www.terrain.org

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• If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.

  Franny Armstrong

  Intelligent, Issues, Important

  Source: www.lidf.co.uk

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• We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.

  Franny Armstrong

  Turns, Short Time, Dies

  Source: www.lidf.co.uk

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• It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

  Pope Francis

  Generations, Problem, Our Future

  Address at the White House, delivered 23 September 2015, South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Successful, Transition

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• Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Energy, Transition, Doe

  "Institutions worth $2.6 trillion have now pulled investments out of fossil fuels" by Damian Carrington, Emma Howard, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Travelling is very difficult, you have to go to places with different climates and time zones. Travelling like that every single day through the year is definitely not healthy, but that's something I have to sacrifice if I want to play music.

  Hiromi

  Sacrifice, Years, Play

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• Humans are not responsible for climate change in the way some of people are trying to make us believe, for the following reason: I believe the climate is changing because there's never been a moment where the climate is not changing.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, People, Trying

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Book, Light

  Source: w3.fiu.edu

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