Greenhouses Quotes - Page 6

• We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Effort, Growth

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• Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.

  Thomas Merton

  Errors, Tree, Giants

  Thomas Merton (1993). “The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers”, p.293, Macmillan

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• Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path towards hell unalterable as the carbon cycle feedbacks... kick in one after another.

  Mark Lynas

  Destiny, Years, Carbon Cycle

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• ...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the next few centuries. And one can only imagine our future, shivering, ice age descendants cursing us for leaving them no fossil fuel to create a global warming "greenhouse" effect when one is really needed.

  John Harte

  Ice, Leaving, Age

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• London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank, and no apple-room, and no potting-shed, earthy and warm, with bunches of poppy heads hanging from the ceiling, and sunflower seeds in a wooden box, and bulbs in thick paper bags, and hanks of tarred string, and lavender drying on a tea-tray.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Apples, Tea, Sunflower

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books

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• Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.

  William McNamara

  Cutting, Compassion, Animal

  "Animal Activist and Star of Copycat William McNamara: On Killing Dolphins and Eating Sushi". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.

  Rand Paul

  Running, Thinking, Arrogance

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• I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

  Chris Alexander

  Commitment, Thinking, Paris

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Three

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• Connect with people, visibly and loudly showcase initiatives that reduce greenhouse gases emissions, nurture youth leaders, or spread the message by raising awareness through campaigns. I am convinced that your contributions will ensure that climate change solutions safely power our - and especially your - future.

  Christiana Figueres

  People, Leader, Messages

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• Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And there was, like, trees and sculptures and like - it was, like, this crazy, like, secret garden space.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Crazy, Garden

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We have to create more and more vegetarians, and help people to understand that it is not only the suffering of the animals (which is what made me vegetarian) but also the incredible harm to the environment, the tremendous amount of greenhouse gas created by the whole vast machinery of intensive animal farming.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, People, Suffering

  "Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall: Empathizing with Animals and Touching People’s Hearts". Interview with Lauren Kearney, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

  Bob Brown

  Clouds, Government, Land

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• If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

  Carl Sagan

  Winter, Science, Nuclear

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• The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Land, Energy, Typical

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• It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.

  Jerry Adler

  Breathing, Earth, Problem

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• We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.

  James Hansen

  Years, Decide Upon, Action

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• Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels

  Nicholas Stern

  Levels, Climate Change, Currents

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• You know what I always dreamed of? That with the greenhouse effect, one day Estonia can be what L.A. is right now. I always thought when the end of the world comes, I want to be in Estonia. I think then I'd survive.

  Carmen Kass

  Thinking, One Day, Estonia

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• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Majority, Population, Raw Materials

  "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011.

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• We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

  James Hansen

  Decide Upon, Years, Humanity

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• The US is responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It should take responsibility for leading the way.

  Tony Juniper

  Responsibility, Energy, World

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• Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation. People are being misled by people making money out of this.

  Chris de Freitas

  Impact, People, Climate

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• Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!

  Marcel Leroux

  Long Ago, Global Warming, Existence

  Marcel Leroux (2006). “Global Warming - Myth or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology”, p.4, Springer Science & Business Media

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• We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an enormous hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll. There is no way out of this that does not have real costs attached to it.

  Anthony Zinni

  Military, Real, Pay The Price

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