Climate Quotes - Page 33

• I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Moving, Patriotic

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Millennials really don't turn out in numbers that people expect and hope for. Speaking of global warming and climate change, you know all these emails that WikiLeaks is dumping? I haven't found any on climate change. We got emails from Hillary to her campaign staff and her campaign staff to Hillary.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Numbers, People, Email

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We have emails from donors. We got thousands and thousands of emails here that have been leaked and dumped, and I can't find any reference to climate change.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Email, Donors, Has Beens

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Barack] Obama's out there saying it's the number one national security threat [climate change], and he's got his Joint Chiefs of Staff out there planning American battles, military engagements on that basis.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Military, Numbers, Battle

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We are forward planning and strategic on what the planet will look like with climate change as we decide to go into various areas of the world if we have to.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Looks, World, Planning

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Clinton, Absurd, Bigs

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I can find them strategizing about any number of things in these WikiLeaks email dumps, but there's not a thread on climate change whatsoever. Why is that? If climate change were that big a deal to these people, don't you think they would be talking about it internally?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Talking, Numbers

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Strategizing how to use it, how to promote it, how to use it as a campaign aid? I can't find any reference to [climate change].

  Rush Limbaugh

  Campaigns, Use, Aids

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The whole thing [climate change] is bogus and made up, designed like they always do to scare you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Scare, Made, Whole

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think the hardest one had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Earthquakes, People

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.

  Dale Jamieson

  Ignorance, Government, Greed

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.

  Dale Jamieson

  Addresses, Problem, Difficult

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."

  Dale Jamieson

  Moving, Animal, Agriculture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.

  Dale Jamieson

  Choices, Fundamentals, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community.

  Dale Jamieson

  Impact, Community, Behavior

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you have a flat, fixed view of state interest then it is difficult to understand why some states adopt aggressive climate change policies, even when that risks economically disadvantaging them, and other states do not even when it would be in their economic interests to do so.

  Dale Jamieson

  Views, Risk, Would Be

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change, and a patchwork of jurisdictions that have not. These various policies reflect the politics of each jurisdiction and the values of its citizens.

  Dale Jamieson

  Taken, Cities, Citizens

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Paris climate conference in December, 2015 was a recognition that countries bring their climate policies to international meetings rather than create them during the negotiations (much less do they receive orders from the international community and then go home and implement them).

  Dale Jamieson

  Country, Home, Order

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.

  Dale Jamieson

  Country, Political, Action

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Climate change is not going to be prevented. It's not even going to be mitigated to the degree a rational person would want. As a result we're going to have to live with climate change and try to reduce the extent and rate of change as much as possible. This is not an inspiring or sexy project.

  Dale Jamieson

  Sexy, Trying, Want

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will remain somewhere in the arctic. What's more likely is that we'll continue remaking the planet, driving many species to extinction, killing millions of people through the indirect effects of climate change, making life even harder for the poor and powerless than it is now, and making it a little more difficult for the global middle class to live the lives to which they have become accustomed - in other words, business as usual, only worse.

  Dale Jamieson

  Class, People, Screw Ups

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people to understand this issue.

  Dale Jamieson

  Issues, People, Firsts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature. But we live in a world in which all sorts of change is happening all the time, and the only way to understand what climate change will bring is to tell stories about how it manifests in people's lives.

  Dale Jamieson

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think we can compete with high-wage countries, and I believe we should. New jobs and clean energy, not only to fight climate change, which is a serious problem, but to create new opportunities and new businesses.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Jobs, Believe

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three new planets. But we don't even have one new planet. We have this one, and with the way we're polluting it, the shrinking water resources, the climate change, the experimentation with plants... the outlook is grim.

  Jane Goodall

  Average, Water, Today

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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