Climate Quotes - Page 25

• It is certainly true that conservative Christians are much more likely to doubt the reality of climate change than mainline Christians or the unaffiliated. But when we control for political affiliation and for the important role of thought leaders in determining our opinions on social issues such as climate change, most of the faith-related bias disappears.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Reality, Issues

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've even had people tell me that I must not be a Christian because I think climate change is real. But you know, there's nothing in the Bible that says that. The sad truth is that our thought leaders - many of them in the conservative media and politics - are the ones telling us this isn't real, and we are believing them.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Real, Believe

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• A person of faith who shares conservative values and who says very clearly that climate change is real - and here's why we have to care about it - I think that we "unicorns" do pose a threat to people who want to muddy the waters and keep others in the dark.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Real, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  People, Perspective, Wells

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Caring, Effort, Worship

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and the age of the universe, to pigeonhole climate change as yet another variant on the same theme.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Taken, Issues, People

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• If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist scientists are trying to discredit the Bible, then you've already got a ton of people on your side who are concerned about heresy, other religions, or teaching evolution in schools.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Atheist, Teaching, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We have to reach out to churches and schools and help people understand science, and we have to build rapport between scientists and people of faith. Then once we get that understanding and rapport built, then everyone will be on board with climate change.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  School, People, Understanding

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And if, in the process, I have to sidestep around some very explosive mines, I will do that.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Issues, Important, Care

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and that's what our goal is for human civilization to thrive, a stable climate. We don't want one that's hotter, we don't want one that's colder, we want one that's stable.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Zero, Civilization, Carbon Emissions

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My faith is an enormous motivator for me to engage as well, because climate change is not just an issue that affects the entire planet, it is one that disproportionately affects those who do not have the resources to cope with this change - those whom we are explicitly told as Christians to care for.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Issues, Care

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate change and acting like it doesn't exist. As a Christian, I believe that is something the church needs to know.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Believe, Church

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• I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Believe, Drs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.

  Satish Kumar

  Rain, Ocean, Cutting

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

  Zephyr Teachout

  New York, Cities, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at adapting to new environments in relatively short periods of time. The ancestors of Homo sapiens started leaving Africa over one million years ago, moving from warm, tropical climates into the freezing wilderness of Europe and the desert ecosystems of the Middle East.

  Annalee Newitz

  Moving, Years, Europe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some time ago we discovered the carbon cycle - a long-term set of chemical reactions that govern climates based on how much carbon is free in the atmosphere. At that point, it became clear that humans were affecting our environments far more profoundly than we realized. By releasing so much carbon and greenhouse gas into the environment, we're making long-term changes to every aspect of the natural world.

  Annalee Newitz

  Carbon Cycle, Long, Atmosphere

  Source: therumpus.net

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• think we're still stuck in that agricultural mindset, where we imagine that we can shape the Earth. Sure, we can do that. But the Earth has the power to shape us much more powerfully. To survive climate change, we'll have to realize how dependent we are on our ecosystems for our own survival.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Survival

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• The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.

  Annalee Newitz

  Mass Extinction, Years, Ecosystems

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe even a mass extinction in the long term. Would the life on Earth be radically different? Of course we can't say for sure, but I think a lot of it would look familiar. Like a lot of people, I worry a lot about whether marine mammals would survive, especially whales. Ocean acidification is one of the major killers in climate change events, and that makes the ocean a very inhospitable place.

  Annalee Newitz

  Ocean, Marine, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the current febrile climate Isis needs Donald Trump and Donald Trump needs Isis.

  Jack Dromey

  Isis, Needs, Trump

  House of Commons Hansard Debates, publications.parliament.uk. January 18, 2016.

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• Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on the Republican side. On the Democratic side, he sees Hillary Clinton struggling a bit... And Mayor Bloomberg sees a big lane in the middle for a moderate former Republican who believes in gun control and climate change.

  Don Gonyea

  Believe, Struggle, Gun

  "As Caucus Day Nears, Trump And Cruz Make Big Push In Iowa". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 23, 2016.

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• The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I think a political climate that urges people to take issues into their own hands.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Gun, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A lot of times when I ask people what their apocalyptic fantasy life is like, they'll immediately say something like, "Oh, what I think is going to kill us is climate change or World War IV," and that's not what I'm interested in at all. The point is not about winning a bet about what's going to happen. The point is about the human action of examining the possibility, the kind of obsessive imagining about it.

  Lucy Corin

  War, Winning, Thinking

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• I didn't believe in Bigfoot.I just thought, "No, that would be impossible. You know, we would have found Bigfoot by now. We would've found some skeletons, we would've found some sort of proof of Bigfoot." So, I didn't believe for a long time, but obviously this is the year we find Bigfoot. And obviously all scientists agree that there's definitely Bigfoot.There's no reason to debate it. It's like debating climate change. There's no reason to debate climate change anymore. There's no reason to debate whether there's Bigfoot. Clearly, the yeti exists.

  Rob Huebel

  Believe, Skeletons, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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