Climate Quotes - Page 31

• Despite everything that is going on our climate and injustice in our country, we can't forget to come together celebrate the number of times the Tragically Hip helped bring us together and have our hearts moved. That is us honouring the life force, whatever that is. Celebrating is a duty.

  Sarah Harmer

  Country, Heart, Numbers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

  Edward Albee

  Responsibility, Thinking, Usa

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• To restore our inflamed atmosphere to a hospitable state requires nothing less than rewiring the entire globe - and replace every oil-burning furnace, every gasoline-burning car, every coal-burning generating plant, with renewable, climate-friendly energy sources. The earth's fossil fuel resources have blessed us with a level of prosperity and abundance unimaginable a century ago. Today they are propelling us forward into a century of disintegration.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Blessed, Oil, Car

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• Each year we pump at least six billion tons of heat-trapping carbon into the innermost layer of our atmosphere, whose outer extent is only about twelve miles overhead. According to an IPCC (United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report released this year, atmospheric CO2 will, if the buildup is left unchecked, double from its pre-industrial level within the next century. That doubling of CO2 correlates with an increase in the global temperature of at least three to eight degrees Fahrenheit. The last ice age was just five to nine degrees colder than our current climate.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Years, Ice, Eight

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• There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Wall

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• All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Strong, Progress, Skepticism

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• Climate change is a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.

  Donald Trump

  People, Scams, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Climate change is such a consequential crisis to everybody in the world.

  Hillary Clinton

  World, Climate Change, Crisis

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that the world will continue trying to grapple with the climate problem, no matter who is U.S. president. But I think that, depending on who that president is, it can have a significant influence on the trajectory.

  Chris Mooney

  Thinking, Trying, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This one's like that because it's about these things that I think weigh heavily on me in terms of my own failings and the things that I worry about and my personal demons. Is the sum of my personal demons greater than the things that I like about myself? Is this moment - because it's a particulary high tension, scary moment for all of us in terms of the global climate - going to bring out the best or the worst in us?

  Scott Snyder

  Thinking, Worry, Scary

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

  David Attenborough

  Humanity, Terrorist, Ifs

  "Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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• [Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change.

  Jane Mayer

  Action, Spending, Candidates

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in particular. We're now a part of the East Asia Summit and we have a strategic partnership with Asean. At the US-Asean Leaders Summit I hosted earlier this year in Sunnylands, California, we agreed to a set of principles that will shape the future peace and prosperity of the region, from promoting innovation and furthering economic integration to addressing transnational challenges like global health security and climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Eight, Years

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Creating, Community, Different

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level of education and privilege, one of the two political parties virtually denies the well-established facts about anthropogenic climate change.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Party

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich - the "rational moderate" - who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Issues, Long

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Civilization, Two, Risk

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisk". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Warfare, Nuclear, Threat

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or reversing climate change.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Risk, Doe, Warfare

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Growth, Energy, Use

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Answers, Climate Change, Complexes

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• We have to remove the CO2 that the industrial economy has already emitted, which otherwise will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years and alter the Earth's climate irreversibly. It is possible to do this.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Years, Atmosphere, Earth

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many people can't access clean water, quality healthcare, and reasonable education. We have to figure out what to do about climate change, income inequality, and more. Innovators need to rise to the challenge!

  Scott D. Anthony

  Our World, Water, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• To look at the climate crisis alone - and in my view this is an election where we're not just deciding what kind of a world we will be but whether we will have a world or not, going forward. And the climate crisis, for one thing, you know, Hillary [Clinton] has not repudiated fracking by any means, nor fossil fuels.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, Views, Fossils

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think people should have no illusions that Hillary [Clinton] is going to solve the climate crisis for us. We are in as much trouble with fracking as we are with coal. They both need to be stopped.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Should Have, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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