Enele Sopoaga famous quotes

Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
-- Enele Sopoaga

#Fall #Humanity #Climate

Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.
-- Enele Sopoaga

#Demise #Levels #Temperature

Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just using that as camouflage for our own interests, the self-centered drive for more profits.
-- Enele Sopoaga

#Self #Worry #World

If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?
-- Enele Sopoaga

#Moving #Grandmother #Grandchildren

People living on atolls like Tuvalu are among the world's most threatened populations.
-- Enele Sopoaga

#People #World #Population

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

When you fall for the one that owns you, she’ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.