Quotes
Climate Change and Environment
“There is broad agreement within the scientific community that amplification of the Earth’s natural greenhouse effect by the buildup of various gases introduced by human activity has the potential to produce dramatic changes in climate. Only by taking action now can we endure that future generations will not be put at risk.” ~Statement by 49 Nobel Prize winners and 700 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 1990, Union of Concerned Scientists
“The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.” ~Al Gore
“In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create but by what we refuse to destroy.” ~John C. Sawhill
“I don’t know what it is going to be like the rest of my life on this planet. But I can tell you this: I have had enough experience and enough knowledge to believe that unless we reverse what is happening on this planet, my dear friends, we are going to hand our children a planet that is badly damaged.” ~John McCain
"The reality of global climate change is urgent. The stakes are high - locally and globally - and we need to act. As a City government, we've already cut our greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60% compared to 1990 levels. But it's not enough - we need to work together as a community to set responsible limits on global warming pollution." ~Mayor Greg Nickels, Seattle,WA
“Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.” ~Tony Blair
“Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.” ~Al Gore
"All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster." ~Barack Obama
"The environment is the infrastructure of our communities. As a nation, as a civilization, it's our obligation to create communities for our children that provide them with opportunities for dignity and good health. When we destroy nature, we diminish ourselves and impoverish our children. We ignore that at our own peril." ~Bobby Kennedy
“We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. The science is clear. The global warming debate is over.” ~Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Technology policy lies at the core of the climate change challenge. Even with a cutback in wasteful energy spending, our current technologies cannot support both a decline in carbon dioxide emissions and an expanding global economy. If we try to restrain emissions without a fundamentally new set of technologies, we will end up stifling economic growth, including the development prospects for billions of people. The key is new low-carbon technology, not simply energy efficiency.” ~Jeffrey D Sachs Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
“Levels of greenhouse gases continue to rise in the atmosphere and the rate of that rise is accelerating. We are already seeing the impacts of climate change and the scale of those impacts will also accelerate, until we decide to do something about it." ~Martin Parry, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2008
"The planet is in a precarious place right now and extreme poverty affects a billion people who are living on less than a dollar a day, scrambling for their life." ~Bono
“Climate change will have the biggest effect on people who have done the least to cause it.” ~Bill Gates
"If we don't act now, it will be too late. Our generation must be the one that says 'yes' to alternative, renewable fuels and ends forever our dependence on foreign oil. Our generation must be the one that accepts responsibility for conserving natural resources and demands the tools to do it. And our generation must be the one that builds the New Energy Economy.” ~John Edwards
“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” ~Henry David Thoreau
"All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster." ~Barack Obama
“Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.” ~Alan Watts
“We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.” ~Prince Charles
“The truth is - the globe is warming – the facts are rapidly becoming indisputable. The temperature of the sea is rising, glacial ice is receding, and the world’s climate is changing. This warming trend is not only affecting ecosystems but also clearly increasing hurricane activity and intensity.” ~Tri Robinson, Senior Pastor, Vineyard Boise
“Recent climate change research has uncovered a disturbing feature of the earth's climate system: it is capable of sudden, violent shifts. This is a critically important realization. Climate change will not necessarily be gradual, as assumed in most climate change projections, but may instead involve sudden jumps between very different states.” ~David Suzuki Foundation
“We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.” ~Thomas Edison
“Right now the world is on pace to build hundreds of new coal power plants over the coming decades, adding vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and if that happens the fight against global warming is as good as lost.” ~Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine 2008
“The climate change crisis that we believe is occurring is not something we can wait ten years, five years, even a year, to address. Climate change is real and human induced. It calls for action soon.” ~Rev. Richard Cicik, Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals
"If you look at climate change over the long term, it will profoundly affect the pillars of public health: water, sanitation, air quality and sufficient food," ~Dr. David Heymann, Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment at WHO
"Taking steps to save energy just makes good sense. Whether you're doing it for the economy or for the environment, it just makes sense to do these things." ~Mayor Raymond P. Miller, Sandpoint, ID
“Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.” ~John McCain
“Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world. The frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.” ~Barack Obama
“It’s not just global warming, it’s not just a loss of biodiversity, it’s not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.” ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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