Climate Quotes - Page 29

• 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, Climate Action, People

  "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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• Packing is important because a lot of times I have to go places where I have to be in four different climates in three weeks. For example, Bosnia, Ireland, Rome. Different parts of Italy. You have to pack and get it down to a science.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Rome, Important, Bosnia

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well.

  Walter Munk

  People, Hardship, May

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• We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the truths about overharvest, climate change, and habitat loss to give oceans a voice.

  David Doubilet

  Ocean, Loss, Voice

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• Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much that we hold dear.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Ocean, Rising, Becoming

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• Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats. If we tackle these problems now, we buy ourselves time to work on climate change.

  Nancy Knowlton

  Ocean, Habitat, Damage

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• For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture.

  Moby

  Airplane, Animal, Two

  "Climate Champions speak out: Moby on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.

  Moby

  Animal, Agriculture, Way

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• It's baffling why the issues relating to climate change - [which] have far more obvious and tangible and much more clear-cut evidence about the cause - have been slower for people to accept as a given.

  Sylvia Earle

  Cutting, Issues, People

  "Her Majesty of the Deep Blue Sea: An Interview with Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• The climate has been changing. Of course it [has]. Evidence throughout history, [which] we can assess, especially during human history, shows there have been ups and downs. But the last ten thousand years have been relatively stable compared to now.

  Sylvia Earle

  Years, Lasts, Evidence

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• The changing climate is a threat to human rights.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Threat, Humans

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the face of climate change.

  Mary Robinson

  People, Suffering, Fossils

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• Tackling the issue of climate change presents us with an inflection point in human history - a climate justice revolution that separates development from fossil fuels, supports people in the most vulnerable situations to adapt, allows all people to take part, and, most importantly, realise their full potential.

  Mary Robinson

  Issues, Justice, People

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• It is our responsibility to help wildlife adapt to a changing climate.

  Nikhil Advani

  Responsibility, Wildlife, Helping

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• We must prepare for a changing climate by incorporating climate preparedness into every aspect of our planning - for food, water, health, energy, even national security. We must reduce our emissions to prevent even more dangerous change.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Water, Energy, Planning

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• Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Fighting, Opportunity, Growth

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• By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.

  Michael Bloomberg

  People, Risk, Energy

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• Climate change is real. In order to alter this reality, we need all hands on deck.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Real, Hands, Order

  "Climate Champions speak out: Gisele Bündchen on Climate Change". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Climate change is critical to me because I'm a parent; I feel a sense of responsibility to the future. I'm not going to be around to see its worst effects, which are going to be hitting in the 2030s, '40s, '50s, but my kids will.

  James Cameron

  Kids, Responsibility, Parent

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• There are many war refugees and three times as many climate refugees. All of them are people who can no longer live where they were born. I hope we face reality in time to save ourselves. We will all be migrants soon.

  Vivienne Westwood

  War, Reality, People

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• Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Voice, Combat, Impassioned

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• While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks the ambition to truly meet the challenge. The next step is to move aggressively toward a transition to 100% clean renewable energy as quickly as possible (that means no fossil fuels, nuclear, or big hydro).

  John B. Quigley

  Moving, Ambition, Mean

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• We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get a bigger yield off of their farms? A new type of seed that gets out to a man, let's say, that's drought resistant - because, of course, the rains are changing in Africa with climate change - if you don't put it in the hands of a woman, she won't necessarily get it. We look at breaking down all those barriers.

  Melinda Gates

  Rain, Men, Yield

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Climate change is my greatest concern.

  Leilani Munter

  Climate Change, Concern

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• Ask every politician and leader: What are your plans to end poverty? What are your plans to protect the climate? What are your plans to eliminate nuclear weapons? To answer these correctly is to bring love into action.

  Jonathan Granoff

  Leader, Nuclear, Answers

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