Eileen Claussen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every generation faces a challenge. In the 1930s, it was the creation of Social Security. In the 1960s, it was putting a man on the moon. In the 1980s, it was ending the Cold War. Our generation's challenge will be addressing global climate change while sustaining a growing global economy
-- Eileen Claussen

#War #Men #Moon
Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.
-- Eileen Claussen

#Target
How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act.
-- Eileen Claussen

#Moving #Climate #Determine
It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.
-- Eileen Claussen

#Kyoto #Target #Becoming
Losing more of our existing nuclear fleet will make it that much tougher to meet our carbon reduction goals. We need to keep ramping up renewables, but they can't meet our need for reliable power 24/7. Nuclear is a baseload source and it's carbon-free - two things we need.
-- Eileen Claussen

#Two #Goal #Nuclear
I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.
-- Eileen Claussen

#Jobs #Mean #Fate

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
No one man is superior to the game.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
I love you girl...to the moon and back.
Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.
To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
When you look at the Moon, you think, â€˜Iâ€™m really small. What are my problems?â€™ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Eileen Claussen famous quotes

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